Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known and less fixed?
Alexander HamiltonEstablish that a Government may decline a provision for its debts, though able to make it, and you overthrow all public morality, you unhinge all the principles that must preserve the limits of free constitutions.
Alexander HamiltonThe laws of Congress are restricted to a certain sphere, and when they depart from this sphere, they are no longer supreme or binding.
Alexander Hamilton