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.

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

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.

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.

Have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress.

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

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