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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.

— John Marshall Marbury v. Madison (1803)

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Seldom has a battle, in which greater numbers were not engaged, been so important in its consequences as that of Cowpens..

A constitution is framed for ages to come, and is designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it.

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.

We must never forget that it is a constitution we are expounding.

McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)

The subject is the execution of those great powers on which the welfare of a Nation essentially depends.

McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)

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