It Is The Peculiar Province

The Constitution Is Either A Superior Paramount Law, Unchangeable By Ordinary Means, Or It Is On A Level With Ordinary Legislative Acts, Alterable When The Legislature Shall Please To Alter It. It Is Emphatically The Province And Duty Of The Judicial Department To Say What The Law Is. This Is The Very Essence Of Judicial Duty.

Let The End Be Legitimate, Let It Be Within The Scope Of The Constitution, And All Means Which Are Appropriate, Which Are Plainly Adapted To That End, Which Are Not Prohibited, But Consist With The Letter And Spirit Of The Constitution, Are Constitutional.

A Constitution Is Framed For Ages To Come, And Is Designed To Approach Immortality As Nearly As Human Institutions Can Approach It.

The Power To Tax Involves The Power To Destroy;...the Power To Destroy May Defeat And Render Useless The Power To Create.

No Political Dreamer Was Ever Wild Enough To Think Of Breaking Down The Lines Which Separate The States And Compounding The American People Into One Common Mass.