Accomplish Quote by Melville Fuller

The congress of the United States possesses no power to regulate, or interfere with the domestic concerns, or police of any state: it belongs…

— St. George Tucker

Congress constitutionally lacks general police powers.

— Mike Lee

Congress has a constitutional right to help decide and limit how the country uses its military power. But to assert this right, the legislature…

— Tom Malinowski

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments…

— James Madison

I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution,…

— Thomas Jefferson

The powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases; it has legislative powers on defined and limited objects,…

— James Madison

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively,…

— Joseph Story

It is not questioned that the Federal Government is one of limited powers. Its powers are such, and such only, as are expressly granted…

— James K. Polk

Congress has powers, and they are an important check on the other branches of government.

— Nancy Mace

The 10th Amendment is very clear about what the federal government's role is.

— Doug Burgum

What was to be a relatively innocuous federal government, operating from a defined enumeration of specific grants of power, has become an ever-present and…

— Anonymous

If the Tenth Amendment were still taken seriously, most of the federal government's present activities would not exist. That's why no one in Washington…

— Thomas Woods