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

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

What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.

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.

A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.

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

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.