"A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the governmental exercise of any power not authorized by the constitution is an assumed power, and therefore illegal." | Quote by: | Thomas Paine
(1737-1809) US Founding father, pamphleteer, author |
Date: | 1805 |
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