The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power.
Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...
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Ayn Rand
And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract–the Constitution–made eighty years ago, by men who are now all dead, and who never had any power to bind us, but which (it is claimed) has nevertheless bound three generations...
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Lysander Spooner
In a democracy government is the God.
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Amit Kalantri
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
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A.J. Liebling
I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.
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Bill Maher
More Quotes By Roy Moore
The forefathers, including James Madison, felt very strongly that the duties that we owe to God were outside of government's prerogative, that government had no business interfering with the way we worship God.
Indeed, the acknowledgement of God is not synonymous with religion.
But today, government is taking those rights from us, pretending that it gives us our rights. Indeed, those rights come from God, and it was recognized throughout our history as such.
The whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there was not one sovereign centralized power from which all authority flows.
The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power.
