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

The French Revolution will be found to have had great influence on the strength of parties, and on the subsequent political transactions of the United States.

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

The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will.

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

No principle of general law is more universally acknowledged, than the perfect equality of nations. Russia and Geneva have equal rights. It results from this equality, that no one can rightfully impose a rule on another....As no nation can prescribe a rule for others, none can make a law of nations.

The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. This is the very essence of judicial duty.