American government Quote by Philip Hamburger

“And already here the danger should be evident—that government has returned to the era before constitutions, when kings or executives ruled not through law…

— Philip Hamburger

“In sum, part I has shown that administrative law revives prerogative legislation, together with the prerogative of suspending and dispensing with law—thus restoring an…

— Philip Hamburger

“The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and…

— Albert Einstein

“Gary Lawson observes: “The modern administrative state is not merely unconstitutional; it is anti-constitutional. The Constitution was designed specifically to prevent the emergence of…

— Philip Hamburger

“governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of…

— Declaration of Independence

“This breadth of constitutional law in barring extralegal legislation is revealing about more than the past. The reader will have to wait patiently until…

— Philip Hamburger

The important distinction so well understood in America between a constitution established by the people, and unalterable by the government; and a law established…

— James Madison

“Executive power thus could be exercised adjacent to legislation without actually trespassing on legislative power. The executive, for example, could make regulations and interpretations…

— Philip Hamburger

“Owing its ratification to the law of a State, it has been contended that the same authority might repeal the law by which it…

— Alexander Hamilton

“once the citizenry acquiesces to a new power, believing that it does not affect them, it becomes institutionalized and legitimized and objection becomes impossible.”

— Glenn Greenwald

A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that…

— Thomas Paine

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government…

— Mark Goodwin