Action Quote by William J. Brennan

“Executive power thus could be exercised adjacent to legislation without actually trespassing on legislative power. The executive, for example, could make regulations and interpretations…

— Philip Hamburger

Executive privilege is nowhere to be found in the Constitution, and thus is a very limited principle.

— Joe Sestak

It is well settled in our Constitutional scheme that all Parliamentary Acts and mandates bind the executive. Any executive act, which violates any express…

— Prashant Bhushan

The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power in the Federal Constitution or…

— William Howard Taft

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

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

The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

— John Locke

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 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

The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a government of…

— John Adams

Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.

— Charles Krauthammer

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