It Is Emphatically The Province And Duty

The Law Does Not Expect A Man To Be Prepared To Defend Every Act Of His Life Which May Be Suddenly And Without Notice Alleged Against Him.

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

Certainly All Those Who Have Framed Written Constitutions Contemplate Them As Forming The Fundamental And Paramount Law Of The Nation, And Consequently The Theory Of Every Such Government Must Be, That An Act Of The Legislature, Repugnant To The Constitution, Is Void.

In A Free Government Almost All Other Rights Would Become Worthless If The Government Possessed Power Over The Private Fortune Of Every Citizen.

The Government Of The Union, Then, ... Is, Emphatically, And Truly, A Government Of The People. In Form And In Substance It Emanates From Them. Its Powers Are Granted By Them, And Are To Be Exercised Directly On Them, And For Their Benefit.