Adrian Cronauer Quotes

We are for abiding by the Constitution and recognize that Article I, Section 8, Clause 4 enumerates the power of establishing 'an uniform process of naturalization' to the Congress.

The Constitution grants only Congress - not the president - the power 'to borrow money on the credit of the United States.'

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

If there should happen to be an irreconcilable variance between the two [the Constitution and legislation], that which has superior obligation and validity ought, of course, to be preferred; or, in other words, the Constitution ought to be preferred to the statute, the intention of the people to the intention of their agents.

The Constitution gives the Congress absolute authority within the District of Columbia on any legislative issues whatsoever.

The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves.

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.

Of the powers conferred upon the General Government by the Constitution of the United States much the most important are those given to the legislative body.

The Constitution's pretty clear. The Federalist papers are pretty clear... They very specifically delegated the power to declare war to Congress. They wanted this to be a congressional decision; they did not want war to be engaged in by the executive without approval of Congress.

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

The framers of our Constitution foresaw this state of things and provided for it by declaring the supremacy not only of itself but of the laws made in pursuance of it. The nullity of any act inconsistent with the Constitution is produced by the declaration that the Constitution is supreme law.

Political gerrymanders existed in colonial times and continued through the framing. The Framers provided a remedy for the problem: the Constitution gives state legislatures the initial power to draw federal election districts, but authorizes Congress to “make or alter” those districts

The authority of Congress must be respected …. The President must confine himself to his executive duties—to obey and execute, not make the laws.

It would be a novel and dangerous doctrine that a legislature could change the constitution under which it held its existence.

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

Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.

There is no such thing as a just and fair method of exercising the tremendous power that interventionism puts into the hands of the legislature and the executive.

The Constitution is clear, Article I, Section 8, power vetted in Congress to declare war. If you go back to the founding documents of this nation, the decision of going to war was to be made by people closest to the ground - the elected officials - to make those decisions.

Congress is the appropriate place to make laws about our country's immigration policy; it is not something that the president gets to decide on his own.

President Obama is in violation of Section 3 of Article II of the Constitution by refusing to enforce the employer mandate provisions of Obamacare. The executive branch, which has no constitutional authority to write or rewrite law at whim, has usurped the exclusive legislative power of Congress.

The Supreme Court's most conservative Justices have presented themselves as great respecters of precedent and opponents of 'judicial activism' - of judges using the Constitution to strike down laws passed by the elected branches of government. If they are true to those principles, they should uphold rent control.

I doubt the people of North Carolina will be content to allow the governor to decide or even unduly influence selecting their senator.

Congress has the constitutional responsibility to control the power of the 'purse'.

With regard to the Constitution, the power to create 'a uniform rule of naturalization' does not rest in Article II, but in Article I, making it a power of Congress and not the President.

Delhi government doesn't have the power to open new colleges. Once Delhi gets full statehood, this is a very big issue that will be solved.