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Quote from Thomas Paine,


"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."


By:

Thomas Paine (more quotes by Thomas Paine or books by/about Thomas Paine)


(1737-1809) US Founding father, pamphleteer, author

Date:

1805

Categories:

Constitution, Government, Power

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