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.

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

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

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

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.

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

It is the peculiar province of the legislature to prescribe general rules for the government of society; the application of those rules to individuals in society would seem to be the duty of other departments.