Legislative Power Quotes

#1. In Islam, the legislative power and competence to establish laws belong exclusively to God Almighty.

Ruhollah Khomeini

#2. The parliamentary principle of vesting legislative power in the decision of the majority rejects the authority of the individual and puts a numerical quota of anonymous heads in its place. In doing so it contradicts the aristocratic principle, which is a fundamental law of nature.

Adolf Hitler

#3. No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people.

Thomas Paine

#4. Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.

John Locke

#5. Is there a Legislative power in fact, not expressly prohibited by the Constitution, which might not, according to the doctrine of the Court, be exercised as a means of carrying into effect some specified Power?

James Madison

#6. The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.

Edward Gibbon

#7. When legislative power is united with executive power in a single person or in a simple body of magistracy, there is no liberty, because one can fear that the same monarch or senate that makes tyrannical laws will execute them tyrannically. . . .

Mark R. Levin

#8. EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the judicial department shall be pleased to pronounce them invalid and of no effect.

Ambrose Bierce

#9. There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix

Baron De Montesquieu

#10. Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved the legislative power.

Millard Fillmore

#11. Hence it is a mistake to think, that the supreme or legislative power of any common-wealth, can do what it will, and dispose of the estates of the subject arbitrarily, or take any part of them at pleasure.

John Locke

#12. If the president uses executive orders to legislate new laws, that would be an example of him subverting legislative power from Congress, and might be considered a gross perversion of the Constitution.

Gary Hansen

#13. Nothing in the 14th Amendment or in any other constitutional provision suggests that the president may usurp legislative power to prevent a violation of the Constitution.

Laurence Tribe

#14. It is one thing to be subordinate to the laws, and another [for the Executive] to be dependent on the legislative body. The first comports with, the last violates, the fundamental principles of good government; and, whatever may be the forms of the Constitution, unites all power in the same hands.

Alexander Hamilton

#15. You're impatient for your life to start lifting you up and making you happier. You have that backwards: if you want a happier life, you have to make it happen. It's not called YOUR life for nothing! - Charmainism

Charmaine Smith Ladd

#16. The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

Samuel Adams

#17. We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body

Thomas Jefferson

#18. In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.

Baron De Montesquieu

#19. Culture is a window reflecting the history, culture and spiritual world of a nation, .. Cultural exchange is a bridge to enhance the mutual understanding and friendship between the people of different nations.

Hu Jintao

#20. Some of his own closeness to nature, his great love for human beings, was passed on by Whitman to all of us who knew and loved him.

Ella R. Bloor

#21. Basically, when it comes to women, both aging and eating are somehow shameful.

Emma Woolf

#22. The very purpose of the Second Amendment is to stop the government from disallowing people the means to defend themselves against tyranny. Any proposal to abuse executive power and infringe upon gun rights must be repelled with the stiffest legislative force possible.

Steve Stockman

#23. The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.

James Madison

#24. Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

Marilyn Monroe

#25. The power of protest depends not only on how many turn out, but also on what legislative, judicial, and civil society institutions exist to enact the will of those marching in the streets.

Cynthia P. Schneider

#26. A representative assembly, although extremely well qualified, and absolutely necessary, as a branch of the legislative, is unfit to exercise the executive power, for want of two essential properties, secrecy and dispatch.

John Adams

#27. What's brilliant about the United States system of government is separation of power. Not only the executive, legislative, judicial branches, but also the independence of the military from civilians, an independent media and press, an independent central bank.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

#28. No longer was he the man who had joined the crowd; he was now one of the crowd he had joined, and a genuine companion of those who had led him there.

Augustine Of Hippo

#29. Life is a journey; let's enjoy it, seeing some exciting things, and having fun along the way.

Ellen J. Barrier

#30. The danger from legislative usurpations, which, by assembling all power in the same hands, must lead to the same tyranny as is threatened by executive usurpations.

James Madison

#31. The legislative cannot transfer the power of making laws to any other hands: for it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others.

John Locke

#32. Emily and I have some funny scenes where we quarrel and it gets quite heated, the mother-daughter relationship. You know, film mothers and daughters adore each other. And some don't. But how could you not love Emily Blunt? But I think I'm just one of those people who's always discontented.

Jacki Weaver

#33. Very close, I want to hear your voice; and then I'll lose myself in the maelstrom of your eyes, your lips and your hair - you know it very well, you my beguiling siren and you rob me, mercilessly, of my thinking.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#34. I just look up to anyone who made music back then because you really had to be a musician. There were no samples or drum machines. Those people back in the day paved the way for people like me.

Rahki

#35. When I look into the eyes of my Prince, and my daughter Paris, I see miracles and I see beauty.

Michael Jackson

#36. Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

Simone Weil

#37. I do not conceive that power is given to the President and Senate to dismember the empire, or to alienate any great, essential right. I do not think the whole legislative authority have this power. The exercise of the power must be consistent with the object of the delegation.

James Madison

#38. You know coaches. Sometimes they ramble.

Paul Pierce

#39. If there are such things as political axioms, the propriety of the judicial power of a government being co-extensive with its legislative, may be ranked among the number.

Alexander Hamilton