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 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.

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

When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.

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.

The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.

It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.