Assuming Quote by Thomas Jefferson

There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the commission under which it…

— Alexander Hamilton

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

Have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by…

— John Marshall

A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.

— John Marshall

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

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

Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.

— Thomas Jefferson

An act against the Constitution is void; an act against natural equity is void.

— James Otis

Before you can have an act of Congress, you have to have a Congress willing to act.

— Al N. Green

The Constitution is not a law, but it empowers the people to make laws... The Constitution tells us what shall not be a lawful…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

Is there a Legislative power in fact, not expressly prohibited by the Constitution, which might not, according to the doctrine of the Court, be…

— James Madison

A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without…

— Thomas Paine