Federalism Quotes

• Las operaciones del gobierno federal serán más amplias e importantes en tiempos de guerra y peligro; las de los gobiernos estatales, en tiempos de paz y seguridad.

  James Madison

  War, Government, Important

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1831). “The Federalist on the New Constitution”, p.233

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• Federalism isn’t about states’ rights. It’s about dividing power to better protect individual liberty.

  Elizabeth Price Foley

  Rights, Liberty, Individual

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• This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost importance. It forms a double security to the people. If one encroaches on their rights they will find a powerful protection in the other. Indeed, they will both be prevented from overpassing their constitutional limits by a certain rivalship, which will ever subsist between them.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Powerful, Rights, Government

  Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1850). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc”, p.444

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• El federalismo es el mejor freno a la democracia. [Asigna poderes limitados al gobierno central. De este modo, todo el poder está limitado. Excluye el poder absoluto de la mayoría.

  Lord Acton

  Government, Democracy, Majority

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• Los poderes delegados por la Constitución propuesta al gobierno federal son pocos y definidos. Los que deben permanecer en los gobiernos de los Estados son numerosos e indefinidos.

  James Madison

  Government, Nullification, Too Much Power

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). "El Federalista, sobre la Nueva Constitución, escrito en el año 1788", p.215

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• In the first place, it is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and administering laws. Its jurisdiction is limited to certain enumerated objects, which concern all the members of the republic, but which are not to be attained by the separate provisions of any.

  James Madison

  Law, Government, Republic

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist, on the new constitution, written in 1788, with an appendix, containing the letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the proclamation of neutrality of 1793, also the original articles of confederation and the constitution of the United States”, p.62

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• [T]he States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore . . . never to see all offices transferred to Washington, where, further withdrawn from the eyes of the people, they may more secretly be bought and sold at market.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Eye, Home, Government

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• The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.

  James Madison

  Constitution, Composition

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.179

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  Si pusieras al gobierno federal a cargo del desierto del Sahara, en 5 años habría escasez de arena.

  Milton Friedman

  Gobierno, Años, Política

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• No hay salvación para la civilización, ni siquiera para la raza humana, salvo la creación de un gobierno mundial.

  Albert Einstein

  World Government, Race, Law

  "World Politics: Trend and Transformation". Book by Charles Kegley (p. 537), 2008.

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• Mientras la constitución siga siendo leída y sus principios conocidos, los estados deben ser considerados, por todo hombre racional, como componentes esenciales de la unión; y por lo tanto la idea de sacrificar los primeros a los segundos es totalmente inadmisible.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Sacrifice, Men, Ideas

  Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1850). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc”, p.449

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• Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act. In this relation, then, the new Constitution will, if established, be a FEDERAL, and not a NATIONAL constitution.

  James Madison

  Wisdom, Independent, America

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.177

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• But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of a few States only. They would be signals of general alarm . . . But what degree of madness could ever drive the federal government to such an extremity.

  James Madison

  Government, Ambitious, Alarms

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.220

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• Los poderes no delegados a los Estados Unidos por la Constitución, ni prohibidos por ella a los Estados, están reservados a los Estados respectivamente, o al pueblo.

  Historia de Joseph

  Gobierno, Gente, Estados Unidos

  Joseph Story (1851). "Comentarios sobre la Constitución de los Estados Unidos: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution", p.296

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• Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California.

  Rick Perry

  Moving, Gay, Marijuana

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• El término federalismo es un buen término, pero está justo debajo de la superficie; está a punto de llegar a la comprensión pública más amplia de que estas prácticas están ocurriendo y son políticamente viables.

  Gar Alperovitz

  Practice, Understanding, Come Up

  Fuente: www.salon.com

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• In this relation, then, the proposed government cannot be deemed a national one; since its jurisdiction extends to certain enumerated objects only, and leaves to the several states, a residuary and inviolable sovereignty over all other objects.

  James Madison

  Government, Nullification, States

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.178

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• Our executive branch does not believe in interfering with what the legislative branch chooses to do. We believe in federalism.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Believe, Doe, Branches

  Fuente: abcnews.go.com

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• Considero que los fundamentos de la Constitución se basan en que "todos los poderes que la Constitución no delega en los Estados Unidos ni prohíbe a los estados, están reservados a los estados o al pueblo". Dar un solo paso más allá de los límites así especialmente trazados en torno a los poderes del Congreso, es tomar posesión de un campo ilimitado de poder que ya no es susceptible de definición alguna.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Gobierno, Personas, Campos

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). "Los escritos de Thomas Jefferson: Su autobiografía, correspondencia, informes, mensajes, discursos y otros escritos oficiales y privados: Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State", p. 556.

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• Socialism and federalism are necessarily political opposites, because the former demands that centralized concentration of power which the latter by definition denies.

  Felix Morley

  Opposites, Political, Definitions

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• When you assemble from your several counties in the Legislature, were every member to be guided only by the apparent interest of his county, government would be impracticable. There must be a perpetual accomodation and sacrifice of local advantage to general expediency.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Sacrifice, Government, Would Be

  Alexander Hamilton (1957). “Alexander Hamilton: selections representing his life, his thought, and his style”, Macmillan Pub Co

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• Dar un solo paso más allá de los límites especialmente trazados en torno a los poderes del Congreso es tomar posesión de un campo ilimitado de poder, que ya no es susceptible de definición.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Gobierno, Política, Campos

  Thomas Jefferson Henry Augustine Washington (1854). "Los escritos de Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont", p.556

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• The administration of private justice between the citizens of the same state, the supervision of agriculture and of other concerns of a similar nature, all those things in short which are proper to be provided for by local legislation, can never be desirable cares of a general jurisdiction . . . the attempt to exercise these powers would be as troublesome as it would be nugatory; and the possession of them, for that reason, would contribute nothing to the dignity, to the importance, or to the splendour of the national government.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Exercise, Agriculture, Government

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• The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to favor and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest.

  Herbert Croly

  Organization, Order, Political

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.30, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The word "federalism" you might think that means federalism trumps everything; federalism means federal domination. It does not mean that. It means the exact opposite, in fact. It means the states are sovereign and the federal government cannot tell 'em what to do in so many different ways.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Thinking, Opposites

  Fuente: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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