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In the Legislature of the Union alone are all represented. The Legislature of the Union alone, therefore, can be trusted by the people with the power of controlling measures which concern all, in the confidence that it will not be abused.

— John Marshall McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)

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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.

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