Have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress.

The peculiar circumstances of the moment may render a measure more or less wise, but cannot render it more or less constitutional.

Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.

When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.

No one imagines that a law professing to tax will be permitted to destroy.

This government is acknowledged by all, to be one of enumerated powers.

Have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress.