Constitution Quote by Sam Brownback

We had so many different presidents, including Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln - there were other founders like Hamilton, Adams - who made it very clear…

— Mike Huckabee

“Wilson argued further, as he had to, that the federal courts are not bound to the Constitution. “The weightiest import of the matter is…

— Mark R. Levin

What the framers of the Constitution tried to achieve when they wrote that Constitution back in the 1700s was an independent federal judiciary. They…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

It was Thomas Jefferson who said that we should not allow the courts to have a monopoly on the interpretation of what is constitutional…

— Walter E. Williams

I believe you [Samuel Alito] and others would look and say that the role of the courts is limited and it's not to decide…

— Sam Brownback

The Founding Fathers built our judicial system to withstand the special interest pressures that beset the political branches of government.

— Sheldon Whitehouse

Federalism is an intrinsic part of our constitutional set-up.

— Naveen Patnaik

Without question, the court does play a vital role in our constitutional system.

— Mike DeWine

“Instead of defining a few rights, Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 84, “Here, in strictness, the people surrender nothing, and as they retain everything,…

— Thom Hartmann

The whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there was not…

— Roy Moore

The American Founding Fathers gave us courts, independent jurists. They left room for civil society, which meant that citizens could directly associate in order…

— Condoleezza Rice

“within rigidly circumscribed guidelines. All powers not specifically granted to the federal government are reserved to the states and the people. The Founding Fathers…

— Mark Meckler