Can it be of less consequence that the meaning of a Constitution should be fixed and known, than a meaning of a law should be so?

It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute.

[Christianity] existed and flourishes, not only without the support of human laws, but in spite of every opposition from them.

Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

No distinction seems to be more obvious than that between spiritual and temporal matters. Yet whenever they have been made objects of Legislation, they have clashed and contended with each other, till one or the other has gained the supremacy.

On any other hypothesis, the delegation of judicial power would annul the authority delegating it; and the concurrence of this department with the others in usurped powers, might subvert forever, and beyond the possible reach of any rightful remedy, the very Constitution which all were instituted to preserve.