Legislature Quotes - Page 6

• In no part of the Constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not the executive department. ... The trust and the temptation would be too great for any one man.

  James Madison

  War, Men, Temptation

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1826). “The Federalist: On the New Constitution”, p.550

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• In the last two years, the amount of legislation in the House of Representatives and state legislatures has been really unprecedented, that has focused on reproductive rights.

  Sandra Fluke

  Derechos, Años, Dos

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• When I was in the California legislature in the '80s, the organic growers, who were sort of the small hippie farmers in those days, brought it to my attention that there were no regulations on organic labeling. In essence, anybody could just grow a thing any way they wanted and put 'organic' on it.

  Sam Farr

  Hippie, Essence, California

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• The electors see their representative not only as a legislator for the state but also as the natural protector of local interests in the legislature; indeed, they almost seem to think that he has a power of attorney to represent each constituent, and they trust him to be as eager in their private interests as in those of the country.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  País, Pensamiento, América

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• It is not the legitimate province of the Legislature to determine which religion is true, or what false. Our government is a civil, and not a religious institution.

  Richard Mentor Johnson

  Religious, Government, Church

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• No soy de los que creen -en términos generales- que las mujeres son mejores que los hombres. No hemos destrozado ferrocarriles, ni corrompido legislaturas, ni hecho muchas cosas impías que han hecho los hombres; pero entonces debemos recordar que no hemos tenido la oportunidad.

  Jane Addams

  Creer, Hombres, Historia

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• Tenemos que defender estas cuestiones cuando es difícil, y eso es lo que yo he hecho. Lo hice cuando estaba en la legislatura estatal, patrocinando la versión de Illinois de la Ley DREAM, para que los niños que fueron traídos aquí por causas ajenas a su voluntad puedan ir a la universidad, porque realmente queremos niños bien educados en nuestro país que sean capaces de tener éxito y convertirse en parte de esta economía y parte del sueño americano.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Country, Children

  The California Democratic Debate in Los Angeles, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 31, 2008.

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• La facultad de declarar la guerra, incluida la de juzgar las causas de la guerra, corresponde plena y exclusivamente al poder legislativo.

  James Madison

  Paz, guerra, juicio

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). "El Federalista: Sobre la Nueva Constitución, escrito en 1788", p.451

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• Y que nunca se interprete que dicha Constitución autoriza al Congreso a infringir la justa libertad de prensa o los derechos de conciencia; o a impedir que el pueblo de los Estados Unidos, que es ciudadano pacífico, posea sus propias armas; ni a levantar ejércitos permanentes, a menos que sea necesario para la defensa de los Estados Unidos o de uno o más de ellos; ni a impedir que el pueblo solicite, de manera pacífica y ordenada, a la legislatura federal la reparación de agravios; ni a someter al pueblo a registros e incautaciones irrazonables de sus personas, documentos o posesiones.

  Samuel Adams

  Ejército, Derechos, Personas

  Debates de la Convención de Massachusetts, 1788.

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• Deseo desde mi alma que la legislatura de este Estado pueda ver la política de una Abolición gradual de la Esclavitud.

  George Washington

  Abolición De La Esclavitud, Alma, Deseo

  George Washington Stephen Lucas (1999). "The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot", p.90, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Las generosas asignaciones hechas por la legislatura de Kentucky para un sistema general de educación no pueden ser aplaudidas demasiado... . Las instituciones educativas deberían ser los objetos favoritos de todo pueblo libre. Arrojan esa luz sobre la mente pública que es la mejor seguridad contra las usurpaciones astutas y peligrosas de la libertad pública. . . ¿Qué espectáculo puede ser más edificante o más oportuno que el de la libertad y el aprendizaje, cada uno apoyándose en el otro para su apoyo mutuo y más seguro?

  James Madison

  Educación, Luz, Kentucky

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• The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to Congress a power to disarm the people. Such a flagitious attempt could only be made under some general pretense by a state legislature. But if in any blind pursuit of inordinate power, either should attempt it, this amendment may be appealed to as a restraint on both.

  William Rawle

  Gun, Power, People

  "A view of the Constitution of the United States of America". Book by William Rawle, 1829.

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• There is but one method of rendering a republican form of government durable, and that is by disseminating the seeds of virtue and knowledge through every part of the state by means of proper places and modes of education and this can be done effectively only by the aid of the legislature.

  Benjamin Rush

  Mean, Government, Democracy

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• Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right to vote for representatives for that county to the legislature.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Voting, Males, Citizens

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1793-1798”, p.159, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The concept of the public welfare is broad and inclusive ... the values it represents are spiritual as well as physical, aesthetic as well as monetary. It is within the power of the legislature to determine that the community should be beautiful as well as healthy, spacious as well as clean, well balanced as well as carefully patroled.

  William O. Douglas

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Community

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

  James Madison

  Constitution, Combination, States

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.47

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• When you assemble from your several counties in the Legislature, were every member to be guided only by the apparent interest of his county, government would be impracticable. There must be a perpetual accomodation and sacrifice of local advantage to general expediency.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Sacrifice, Government, Federalism

  Alexander Hamilton (1957). “Alexander Hamilton: selections representing his life, his thought, and his style”, Macmillan Pub Co

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• I am unable to conceive that the state legislatures which must feel so many motives to watch, and which possess so many means of counteracting the federal legislature, would fail either to detect or to defeat a conspiracy of the latter against the liberties of their common constituencies.

  James Madison

  Mean, Liberty, Federalism

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• The appointment of senators by the state legislatures . . . is recommended by the double advantage of favoring a select appointment, and of giving to the state governments such an agency in the formation of the federal government, as must secure the authority of the former.

  James Madison

  Government, Agency, Giving

  James Madison Ralph Ketcham, "Selected Writings of James Madison", Hackett Publishing.

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• Nothing can be more evident, than that an exclusive power of regulating elections for the National Government, in the hands of the State Legislatures, would leave the existence of the Union entirely at their mercy . . . . It is to little purpose to say that a neglect or omission of this kind [not letting the feds have elections], would be unlikely to take place. The constitutional possibility of the thing, without an equivalent for the risk, is an unanswerable objection.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Hands, Omission, Government

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• Prueba igualmente que, aunque la opresión individual pueda proceder de vez en cuando de los tribunales de justicia, la libertad general del pueblo nunca puede estar en peligro por ese lado; quiero decir, mientras el poder judicial permanezca verdaderamente separado de los poderes legislativo y ejecutivo. Porque estoy de acuerdo en que "no hay libertad, si el poder de juzgar no está separado de los poderes legislativo y ejecutivo". Y prueba, en último lugar, que como la libertad no puede tener nada que temer del poder judicial solo, pero tendría todo que temer de su unión con cualquiera de los otros departamentos.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Mean, Judging, Long

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.380, Coventry House Publishing

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• Nacidos en otros países, pero creyendo que podrían ser felices en éste, nuestras leyes reconocen, como debe ser, su derecho a unirse a nosotros en sociedad, ajustándose, como no dudo que harán, a nuestras reglas establecidas. Que estas reglas sean tan iguales como lo permitan las consideraciones prudenciales, será ciertamente el objetivo de nuestras legislaturas, general y particular.

  Thomas Jefferson

  País, Creer, Ley

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.394

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• The problem with party politics is that people get involved every two or four years and that is it. In the meantime, the legislature and Minnesota politics are on a separate track.

  Paul Wellstone

  Party, Years, Two

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• He presentado una enmienda constitucional para anular Citizens United y dejar claro que el Congreso y las legislaturas estatales sí tienen la capacidad y el poder de regular y sacar la financiación empresarial de las campañas políticas.

  Bernie Sanders

  Política, Ciudadanos Unidos, Campañas

  Entrevista con Tavis Smiley, www.sanders.senate.gov. 5 de febrero de 2013.

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• It is perfectly evident to any logical mind that when you have got the vote, by the proper use of the vote in sufficient numbers, by combination, you can get out of any legislature whatever you want, or, if you cannot get it, you can send them about their business and choose other people who will be more attentive to your demands.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Numbers, People, Mind

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