Dave Rubin Quotes

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 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

The purpose of a written constitution is to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts shall become nullities; to render unnecessary an appeal to the people, or in other words a rebellion, on every infraction of their rights, on the peril that their acquiescence shall be construed into an intention to surrender those rights.

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

In America, we divide federal power between the legislative, executive and judicial branches so that no one holds too much power. This is sixth-grade civics: Congress writes the laws; the president executes the laws; and the courts apply those laws fairly and dispassionately to cases.

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

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.

As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt learned when he tried to pack the Supreme Court, the three branches of government are coequal for a reason. Neither the executive branch or the legislative branch should use the third branch to a pursue a partisan agenda.

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

The most important benefit that I can confer on the country by my Presidency is to insist upon the entire independence of the executive and legislative branches of government

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

The framers of our Constitution came up with two major contributions to the art of government. The first was the idea of an executive not dependent on the political support of the legislature. The second was the idea of the judiciary independent of the executive and legislative branches.

The Constitutional framework of checks and balances matters.

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

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

There are checks and balances and broad separation of powers under the Constitution. Each organ of the State, i.e. the legislature, the executive and the judiciary, must have respect for the others and not encroach into each other's domain.

It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution.

The judicial authority shall not be carried out either by the legislative authority or by the king, but by magistracies instituted and elected to that end.

The fact that the judiciary makes foolish rulings doesn’t mean the government should intervene.

The federal courts do not sit as an ombudsman, refereeing the disputes between the other two branches.

The dignity and stability of government in all its branches, the morals of the people, and every blessing of society, depends so much upon an upright and skillful administration of justice that the judicial power ought to be distinct from both the legislature and the executive, and independent upon both that so it may be a check upon both, as both should be checks upon that.

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.

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

I think the founding fathers, in their genius, created a system of three co-equal branches of government and a built-in system of checks and balances.

I took an oath to protect the Constitution, and protecting the Constitution means not letting the president bypass the separation of powers.