Hence the legislatures of all great states have been constrained to adopt some process for restricting or sifting the proposals or bills of their members.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell
There is, of course, no self-evident line to mark off those things that are revolutionary or fundamental; and herein lies an incidental advantage of a written constitution restricting the competence of the legislature, for it draws just such a line, and goes far to confine the immediate energies of the parties to questions that are admitted not to be revolutionary.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell
If there is one question upon which the philanthropists of the present day, especially the more emotional ones, are agreed, it is that any law restricting Chinese immigration is an outrage; yet it seems incredible that any man of even moderate intelligence should not see that no greater calamity could now befall the United States than to have the Pacific slope fill up with a Mongolian population.
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt