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Every law enacted by Congress must be based on one or more of its powers enumerated in the Constitution. "The powers of the legislature are defined and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken or forgotten, the constitution is written." Marbury v. Madison, 1 Cranch 137, 176 (1803) (Marshall, C. J.).
"In questions of power, then, let no more be said of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." Thomas Jefferson
About government
It is beyond reprehensible that honest, decent Americans are forced to spend what little money they have trying to defend themselves against a corrupt government. There are more victims of state and federal governments than there are advocates and it will continue to get worse. However, we must fight and we must continue to educate our fellow Americans at every opportunity - especially about fully informed juries and jury nullification. Devvy Kidd, from NewsWithViews.com
"It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error." U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." George Washington
"It is extremely dangerous to be right if the government or one of its institutions are wrong." Voltaire
"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods." H.L. Mencken
"The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State." The Ethics of Redistribution, Bertrand de Jouvenal, 1952