The power to tax is the power to destroy.
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 MarshallTags: innocence justice trial law guilt courts legality
The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their will, and lives only by their will.
John MarshallTags: constitution
. . . a constitution, intended to
endure for ages to come, and
consequently, to be adapted to the
various crises of human affairs.
Tags: freedom
The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.
John MarshallTags: equality justice law constitution
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.
John MarshallTags: law taxes constitution
...the particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written constitutions, that a law repugnant to the Constitution is void; and that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument.
John MarshallTags: constitution marbury-v-madison
It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.
John MarshallTags: law
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