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

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

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

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

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

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.

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.