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.

The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. It will certainly cease to deserve this high appellation, if the laws furnish no remedy for the violation of a vested legal right.

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.

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.

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.

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.