Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-2] of 2 John Taylor quotesJohn Taylor QuotesJohn Taylor Constitutions are violated, and it would be absurd to expect the federal government to enforce the Constitution against itself. If the very federal judges the Constitution was partly intended to restrain were the ones exclusively charged with enforcing it, then “America possesses only the effigy of a Constitution.” The states, the very constituents of the Union, had to do the enforcing.~ John Taylor If the means to which the government of the union may resort for executing the power confided to it, are unlimited, it may easily select such as will impair or destroy the powers confided to the state governments.~ John Taylor Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print