Accused Quote by William O. Douglas

In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system, non-citizens face an executive that is now investigator, prosecutor, judge, jury and…

— William Safire

Marriage is not defined in the federal Constitution at all; it's a matter for the states. And applying the Fourteenth Amendment to the equality…

— Mike Huckabee

Of all the objections which have been framed against the federal Constitution, this is perhaps the most extraordinary. Whilst the objection itself is levelled…

— James Madison

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

The whole frame of the Federal Constitution proves that the government which it creates was intended to be one of limited and specified powers.

— James K. Polk

I think the federal government should be doing only what the Constitution says it should be. We don't have authority under the federal Constitution…

— Paul Broun

Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity.

— Pranab Mukherjee

The proposed constitution, therefore, even when tested by the rules laid down by its antagonists, is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal…

— James Madison

Many of the opposition [to the new Federal Constitution] wish to take from Congress the power of internal taxation. Calculation has convinced me that…

— Thomas Jefferson

The issue presented is whether the Federal Constitution confers a fundamental right upon homosexuals to engage in sodomy, and hence invalidates the laws of…

— Byron White

The Federal Constitution forms a happy combination in this respect; the great and aggregate interests being referred to the national, the local and particular,…

— James Madison

The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect.

— Henry Knox