America Quote by Thomas Jefferson

In this relation, then, the proposed government cannot be deemed a national one; since its jurisdiction extends to certain enumerated objects only, and leaves…

— James Madison

When any one State in the American Union refuses obedience to the Confederation by which they have bound themselves, the rest have a natural…

— Thomas Jefferson

The States are separate and independent sovereigns. Sometimes they need to act like it.

— John Roberts

“In examining the division of powers, as established by the Federal Constitution, remarking on the one hand the portion of sovereignty which has been…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The government of the United States is not entitled to affirm as a universal proposition, with reference to a number of independent States for…

— Richard Cecil

Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by force; but the chain…

— Jefferson Davis

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

The States are nations.

— Daniel Webster

The error is in the assumption that the General Government is a party to the constitutional compact. The States ... formed the compact, acting…

— John C. Calhoun

It will be admitted on all hands, that with the exception of the powers surrendered by the Constitution of the United States, the people…

— Roger B. Taney

Once one concedes that a single world government is not necessary, then where does one logically stop at the permissibility of separate states? If…

— Anonymous

So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state sovereignties are…

— Joseph Story