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We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision. -- Byron White
The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken. -- Carl Bernstein
All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so. -- Jeremy Bentham
The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government. -- Todd Akin
Constitutional interpretation is not the business of the Court only, but also properly the business of all branches of government. -- Edwin Meese
What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter. -- Terry Pratchett
Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government. -- Richard M. Nixon
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. -- Bob Woodward
The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived. -- James Madison
One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn't get to shut down the entire government just to refight the results of an election. -- Barack Obama
When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry. -- David Mamet
You know, when you get to the New World and you develop your three branches of government and you have a civil society, you can just jettison all the barbarism I recommended in the first books. -- Sam Harris
Congress is the third branch of government... which makes every one of the 535 members of Congress 1/535th of that important one-third, which works out to, hmmm, well, someone else can do the math. You wouldn't think such little wheels could make so much noise. -- Wesley Pruden
I'm looking for a Justice who appreciates the awesome responsibility that she will be given, if confirmed. A Justice who understands the gravity of the office and who respects the very different roles that the Constitution provides for each of the three branches of government. -- Amy Klobuchar
We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs. -- Alan Dershowitz
Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks and balances to prevent abuse of power. However, where is the check on the power of the judiciary? If we fail to check the power of the judiciary, I predict that we will eventually live under judicial tyranny. -- Patrick Henry
The Government covers their own ass from things they fail to do to protect its own people from corporations that control the government, which is the reason we don't have checks and balances in this country. They checked how much balance they needed to influence congress and all the other branches of government in some way, shape, or form, and cash is king. -- Immortal Technique
[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. -- Thomas Jefferson
The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government. -- William Weld
The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken. -- Carl Bernstein
You know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President. -- Chuck Schumer
Thank God for the founding fathers, who set up three separate branches of government. And the media acting as the Fourth Estate. -- Andre Carson
The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther. -- Michele Bachmann
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. -- Paul Ryan
To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches. -- Thomas Paine
The federal judiciary is unlike the other branches of government. And once confirmed, a federal judge serves for life. And there's no court above the Supreme Court. -- Patrick Leahy
When justices seize authority from the other branches of the federal government, as well as state and local governments, under the rubric of judicial review, that's tyranny. -- Mark Levin
Supreme Court nominees should be individuals who not only understand, but truly respect the equal roles and responsibilities of different branches of government and our state governments. -- Chuck Grassley
The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice. -- Charles W. Pickering
In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States. -- Robert W. Welch, Jr.
All branches of our government today are controlled by individuals who use their power to undermine liberty and enhance the welfare/warfare state-and frequently their own wealth and power, -- Ron Paul

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