Duty Quote by Thomas Jefferson

It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property, since they pre-exist, and his work is only to…

— Frederic Bastiat

We do not sit as a super-legislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

— William O. Douglas

“Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests. As long as ours is…

— Earl Warren

The authority of the Supreme Court must not be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacities, but…

— Andrew Jackson

We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.

— William Howard Taft

The powers of Congress are totally inadequate to preserve the balance between the respective States, and oblige them to do those things which are…

— Henry Knox

Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument…

— Andrew Johnson

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

I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not…

— Alexander Hamilton

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

I say further that for this great legislative body to ignore the Constitution and the fundamental concepts of our governmental system is to act…

— Barry Goldwater

The nature of constitutional delegations of power is that they entitle the empowered official to do certain things that other people can't do.

— Benjamin Wittes