A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.
John MarshallThe acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not hear a damned word he says.
John MarshallThe people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will.
John MarshallThe particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written constitutions, that a law repugnant to the Constitution is void; and that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument.
John Marshall