What Are The Maxims Of

That The People Have An Original Right To Establish, For Their Future Government, Such Principles As, In Their Opinion, Shall Most Conduce To Their Own Happiness, Is The Basis, On Which The Whole American Fabric Has Been Erected.... The Principles, Therefore, So Established, Are Deemed Fundamental. And As The Authority, From Which They Proceed, Is Supreme ... They Are Designed To Be Permanent.... The Powers Of The Legislature Are Defined, And Limited; And That Those Limits May Not Be Mistaken, Or Forgotten, The Constitution Is Written.

It Is Emphatically The Province And Duty Of The Judicial Department To Say What The Law Is.

The Most Lively Fancy Aided By The Strongest Description Cannot Equal The Reality Of The Opera.

The 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.

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.