James Madison Quotes

The difference between the departments undoubtedly is, that the legislature makes, the executive executes, and the judiciary construes the law.

The legislature makes, the executive executes, and the judiciary construes the law.

In the government of this Commonwealth, the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them: The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them: The judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them: to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men.

The judicial branch of the government is the least dangerous because … it has no influence over either the sword or the purse.

Legislative power is always superior to the executive.

All constitutional acts of power, whether in the executive or judicial department, have as much legal validity and obligation as if they proceeded from the legislature.

It has been the judiciary that has preserved the Constitution rather than the other two separated powers.

When it comes to the separation of powers, the Constitution makes it look pretty simple: Congress makes the laws, the president enforces them and the judiciary adjudicates them. In reality, though, the lines between the branches are a little blurrier than they seem on paper.

The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.

There is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers.

The legislative, executive, and judicial power shall be placed in separate departments.

As the Texas Attorney General I saw it every day: the struggle for power between the legislative branch and the executive branch.

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty.

It equally proves, that though individual oppression may now and then proceed from the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never be endangered from that quarter; I mean so long as the judiciary remains truly distinct from both the legislature and the Executive. For I agree, that "there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers." And it proves, in the last place, that as liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have every thing to fear from its union with either of the other departments…

People assume that the executive branch has more power than it actually has. Only the legislative branch can create the laws; the executive branch cannot create the laws. So, if the executive branch tries to create a branch one side or the other... you go back to the founders of the nation. They set up a system that ensures that it doesn't happen.

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

The courts are supposed to be the inferior branch of our three branches of government.

I think Donald Trump understands there's a Constitution. And that those separate but equal branches of government give us a limited government. And he believes that.

We are sworn to uphold the Constitution and law. And it has to be consistent and agreed upon with three branches of government - one can't overrule the other two.

Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the president.

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.

We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor.

No one branch of the U.S. government should have supremacy over the other two.

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

The framers of our Constitution thought it was of critical, critical importance, in establishing three branches of government, that we have an independent judiciary. Therefore was that without that, the provisions of the constitution couldn’t be enforced