The Acme Of Judicial Distinction

An Unlimited Power To Tax Involves, Necessarily, A Power To Destroy; Because There Is A Limit Beyond Which No Institution And No Property Can Bear Taxation.

Seldom Has A Battle, In Which Greater Numbers Were Not Engaged, Been So Important In Its Consequences As That Of Cowpens.

The Peculiar Circumstances Of The Moment May Render A Measure More Or Less Wise, But Cannot Render It More Or Less Constitutional.

No Principle Of General Law Is More Universally Acknowledged, Than The Perfect Equality Of Nations. Russia And Geneva Have Equal Rights. It Results From This Equality, That No One Can Rightfully Impose A Rule On Another....as No Nation Can Prescribe A Rule For Others, None Can Make A Law Of Nations.

The Power To Tax Is The Power To Destroy.