Compact Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Power's not what the Constitution was about.

— Roy Moore

The powers of the federal government ... result from the compact to which the states are parties, [and are] limited by the plain sense…

— James Madison

If it be said that the legislative body are themselves the constitutional judges of their own powers, and that the construction they put upon…

— Alexander Hamilton

The States then being the parties to the constitutional compact, and in their sovereign capacity, it follows of necessity, that there can be no…

— James Madison

There is a difference between constitutional government and judicial dictatorship, and I think it's time we remembered that our Constitution was not put together…

— Alan Keyes

The Constitution was about a limitation on power.

— Roy Moore

“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

It is the people, and not the judges, who are entitled to say what their constitution means, for the constitution is theirs, it belongs…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“On behalf of the deference under the Administrative Procedure Act, it is said that Congress is not constitutionally barred from authorizing deference—as if Congress…

— Philip Hamburger

When, after having examined in detail the organization of the Supreme Court, one comes to consider in sum the prerogatives that have been given…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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

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