I Fear We May Live To See

I Have Always Believed That National Character... Depends More On The Female Part Of Society Than Is Generally Imagined. Precepts From The Lips Of A Beloved Mother... Sink Deep In The Heart, And Make An Impression Which Is Seldom Entirely Effaced.

When A Law Is In Its Nature A Contract, When Absolute Rights Have Vested Under That Contract, A Repeal Of The Law Cannot Divest Those Rights.

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.

Between A Balanced Republic And A Democracy, The Difference Is Like That Between Order And Chaos.

The Particular Phraseology Of The Constitution Of The United States Confirms And Strengthens The Principle, Supposed To Be Essential To All Written Constitutions, That A Law Repugnant To The Constitution Is Void; And That Courts, As Well As Other Departments, Are Bound By That Instrument.