Constitution Quote by Sheldon Whitehouse

The Court's primary duty, in short, is not to minimize its role or avoid friction with the political branches, but to try as best…

— Diane S. Sykes

The people believed that while the courts would be independent, they would defer to the political branches on policy issues.

— Sam Brownback

The president's powers are always open to being questioned by the co-equal branches of government.

— Ari Melber

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

— Nancy Mace

I think the Supreme Court has, as an equal branch of government, the ability to overrule Congress and the president. But I also feel…

— Rick Santorum

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

— Carl Bernstein

The federal judiciary is unlike the other branches of government. And once confirmed, a federal judge serves for life. And there's no court above…

— Patrick Leahy

Of the over 100,000 wildfires that happen in the U.S. each year, not a single one would get started without the fire triangle: Oxygen,…

— Stephen Colbert

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of…

— James Madison

The three branches of government number considerably more than three and are not, in any sense, 'branches' since that would imply that there is…

— P. J. O'Rourke

In our system of equal branches of government, whatever plan the advocates are demanding from Biden will have to stand on its own in…

— Jonathan Capehart

It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control…

— Sandra Day O'Connor