Is there a Legislative power in fact, not expressly prohibited by the Constitution, which might not, according to the doctrine of the Court, be exercised as a means of carrying into effect some specified Power?

Nothing could be more irrational than to give the people power, and to withhold from them information without which power is abused.

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.

In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of the pre-existent rights of nature.

If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within.

A President is impeachable if he attempts to subvert the Constitution.

Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be commenced, continued, or concluded.