Quotes About Federalism

Wringing your hands about states' rights, forget it. They're gone. Basically, the federal government can do whatever it wants. Who's going to protect the states? My court? Ha - we're feds!

Einstein's pacifism, world federalism, and aversion to nationalism were part of a political outlook that also included a passion for social justice, a sympathy for underdogs, an antipathy toward racism, and a predilection toward socialism.

Unlike the Congress, the AAP stands for democratic rights of states, stands against the infringement of democratic rights by the Centre.

Canadian federalism is more than a form of government. It's also a system of values that allows different people in diverse communities to live and work together in harmony for the good of all.

My point was very simple, and it was that it is absolutely absurd for the United States of America to continue to urge us further down the line towards a federal superstate when the U.S. has not even signed up to the U.N. Convention on Human Rights.

'Federalism', in the context of political and media usage in Britain, has come to mean the creation and imposition of a European superstate, one centralised in Brussels.

I am not Left or Right. I believe in nationalism, patriotism, the federal structure, democracy, and the poor.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula.

The sharp differences between the way city dwellers and rural, suburban and exurban residents vote, think and live cannot be papered over by federal laws, federal rules or, clearly, by a president.

in Federalist Paper Number 45 shows how Madison and the founders saw the limited role of federal government: The operations of the federal government will be at their most extensive and important in times of war and danger, while those of the state governments will be the most important in times of peace and security. Since periods of war and danger will probably occur much less than times of peace and security, the state governments will enjoy yet another advantage over the federal government.

Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.