Fabrizio Moreira Quotes

The Founders of this Nation entrusted the lawmaking power to the Congress alone in both good and bad times … the President's power to see that the laws are faithfully executed refutes the idea that he is to be a law-maker.

Only Congress can amend the law, not President Obama nor the courts.

Almost always, executive orders are within an authority and always within the purview of Congress to change if they want to legislatively change it.

The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.

What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?

It is the President upon whom the Constitution devolves, as head of the executive department, the duty to see that the laws be faithfully executed; but as he cannot execute them in person, he is allowed to select his agents, and is made responsible for their acts within just limits. So complete is the presumed delegation of authority in the relation of a head of department to a President, that the Supreme Court of the United States have decided that an order made by a head of department is presumed to be made by the President himself.

Congressional power has not so much been usurped by the Presidency as given up to the Presidency by Congress.

The governor has led the way, but he's not an emperor. The legislature has to act. He cannot pass a bill by himself.

The framers of the Constitution did not entrust this House with the power to impeach the President of the United States in order to establish this body as a court of personal morality.

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

When a President asserts constitutional powers he needs to be pretty certain he has those powers.

it would be so dangerous for the Executive in a single Person to negative a Law that the People will not accept of it.

From time to time we must remind ourselves that the President has a role in the legislative process.

The President cannot refuse to enforce a law simply because he does not like it.

The collective judgement of the Congress, with all its faults, could be superior to that of one man who makes the final decision, in the executive.

It is essential to democracy that the elected representatives of the people make the laws that govern this country - and not the judges.

It should be remembered that the president cannot, by executive order, do things that affects the public at large unless there is some Congressional basis for it.

I think any good judge recognizes his or her place in our constitutional government, and that place is not to upset the will of the people as expressed through their elected representatives.

When I'm president, we'll have executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other day

Hillary Clinton's plan would trigger a constitutional crisis unlike almost anything we have ever seen before. In effect, she would be abolishing the law-making powers of Congress in order to write her own laws from the Oval Office. And you see what bad judgment she has. She has seriously bad judgment.

Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.

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.

By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime.

The Supreme Court, of course, has the responsibility of ensuring that our government never oversteps its proper bounds or violates the rights of individuals. But the Court must also recognize the limits on itself and respect the choices made by the American people.

Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.