4th of july Quote by Thomas Jefferson

My general plan would be to make the States one as to everything connected with foreign nations and several as to everything purely domestic.

— Thomas Jefferson

We are a nation of United States - a constitutional republic made up of individually governed states empowering three equal branches of government to…

— Phil Scott

[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch…

— Thomas Jefferson

“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 powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments…

— James Madison

In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples…

— Anonymous

We are a nation that has a government-not the other way around. And that makes us special among the nations of the earth.

— Ronald Reagan

Each state enjoys sovereign power.

— Gouverneur Morris

In its exterior relations - abroad - this government is the sole and exclusive representative of the united majesty, sovereignty, and power of the…

— John C. Calhoun

The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the states are independent as to everything within themselves and united…

— Thomas Jefferson

I see,... and with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government is advancing towards the usurpation of…

— Thomas Jefferson

For our country to be truly sovereign, we must be able to decide who enters our territory and on what terms.

— Suella Braverman