Luther Strange Quotes

Summarize the Constitution of the United States.

We are still wrestling with a question that plagued the founding fathers: how to balance the role of the federal government with the separate powers of the states that constitute the republic.

The Federal government we have today is unimaginable in the perspective of the Americans who debated the ratification of the original constitution.

My battles have been against federal actions that exceed the powers our Founders granted to the federal government in the constitution.

The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.

I think the federal government should be doing only what the Constitution says it should be. We don't have authority under the federal Constitution to have a big federal criminal justice system.

The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.

The Framers (of the Constitution) were not concerned primarily with favoring one type of government over another, but with limiting the power of government, regardless of its source.

The Founding Fathers didn’t intend for the lawyers to run this country

We are not at liberty to add one jot of power to the national government beyond what the people have granted by the constitution

Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force

The federal government should stay out of it.

The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.

It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system that the state governments will in all possible contingencies afford complete security against invasions of the public liberty by the national authority.

The Founders were far more concerned about checking Congress than the States

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. –

Wringing your hands about states' rights, forget it. They're gone. Basically, the federal government can do whatever it wants. Who's going to protect the states? My court? Ha - we're feds!

It is not questioned that the Federal Government is one of limited powers. Its powers are such, and such only, as are expressly granted in the Constitution or are properly incident to the expressly granted powers and necessary to their execution.

The Founders deliberately limited presidential authority.

The whole frame of the Federal Constitution proves that the government which it creates was intended to be one of limited and specified powers.

We just need to make sure that we get somebody in there that respects the Constitution, respects the rule of law, that restores the proper balance between the states and federal government. I have great confidence Jeb Bush would do that.

The Founding Fathers: A bunch of old white guys who are making it nearly impossible for modern government to pick our doctors, teach our children, correct our diets, and save our money.

I think our founding fathers believed in nullification. There's no doubt about that.

We Americans love our Constitution so much that we can't bear to change even the stupid parts.

I rise in support of the separation of powers as established by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution. The Constitution clearly delegates the power to deal with criminal matters, like the use of drugs, to the States.