I Fear We May Live To See

The Government Of The United States Has Been Emphatically Termed A Government Of Laws, And Not Of Men. It Will Certainly Cease To Deserve This High Appellation, If The Laws Furnish No Remedy For The Violation Of A Vested Legal Right.

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.

An Unlimited Power To Tax Involves, Necessarily, A Power To Destroy; Because There Is A Limit Beyond Which No Institution And No Property Can Bear Taxation.

What Are The Maxims Of Democracy? A Strict Observance Of Justice And Public Faith, And A Steady Adherence To Virtue.

Whether A Law Be Void For Its Repugnancy To The Constitution, Is, At All Times, A Question Of Much Delicacy, Which Out Seldom, If Ever, To Be Decided In The Affirmative, In Doubtful Case. ... But It Is Not On Slight Implication And Vague Conjecture That The Legislature Is To Be Pronounced To Have Transcended Its Powers, And Its Acts To Be Considered As Void. The Opposition Between The Constitution And The Law Should Be Such That The Judge Feels A Clear And Strong Conviction Of Their Incompatibility With Each Other.