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

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well

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.

The federal government is acknowledged by all to be one of enumerated powers. The principle, that it can exercise only the powers granted to it . . . is now universally admitted.

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

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.

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