No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States and compounding the American people into one common mass.

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

Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void.

The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.

What is it that makes us trust our judges? Their independence in office and manner of appointment.

It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.

In a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.