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.
John MarshallThe law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.
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 MarshallCertainly 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.
John Marshall