The Law Does Not Expect A Man

A Legislative Act Contrary To The Constitution Is Not Law.

The Peculiar Circumstances Of The Moment May Render A Measure More Or Less Wise, But Cannot Render It More Or Less Constitutional.

It Is The Peculiar Province Of The Legislature To Prescribe General Rules For The Government Of Society; The Application Of Those Rules To Individuals In Society Would Seem To Be The Duty Of Other Departments.

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.

That The People Have An Original Right To Establish, For Their Future Government, Such Principles As, In Their Opinion, Shall Most Conduce To Their Own Happiness, Is The Basis, On Which The Whole American Fabric Has Been Erected.... The Principles, Therefore, So Established, Are Deemed Fundamental. And As The Authority, From Which They Proceed, Is Supreme ... They Are Designed To Be Permanent.... The Powers Of The Legislature Are Defined, And Limited; And That Those Limits May Not Be Mistaken, Or Forgotten, The Constitution Is Written.