It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system, that the state governments will in all possible contingencies afford complete security against invasions of the public liberty by the national authority.

Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant.

The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge right or make good decision.

It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.

Allow a government to decline paying its debts and you overthrow all public morality-you unhinge all the principles that preserve the limits of free constitutions. Nothing can more affect national prosperity than a constant and systematic attention to extinguish the present debt and to avoid as much as possibly the incurring of any new debt.

That there may happen cases in which the national government may be necessitated to resort to force, cannot be denied.

There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid.