"Corker-Kaine authorizes war against at least eight groups that are known to operate altogether in over 20 countries."
"Congress has let President after President strip the war power from Congress and concentrate that power in the Executive."
"A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who me..."
"This tyranny must end and the people's constitutional rights returned to them."
"It may happen that a strong prejudice may arise in some States against the citizens of others who may have claims against them."
"the House of Representatives cannot only refuse, but they alone can propose the supplies requisite for support of government. They, in a word, hold the purse."
"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read or so incoherent that they cannot be understood."
"The House of Representatives is elected immediately by the great body of the people."
"As it is essential to liberty that the government, in general, should have a common interest with the people, so it is particularly essential that the House should have an immediate dependence on and ..."
"We must distinguish between the deliberative functions of the house and the ministerial functions of the executive powers."
"What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support. . . . A popular Government without popular inf..."