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Constitution Quotes by John Marshall
- A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.
- The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.
- 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.
- 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…
- Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of…
- Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The…
- Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the constitution, and all means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to…
- The peculiar circumstances of the moment may render a measure more or less wise, but cannot render it more or less constitutional.
- 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…
- The government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action, and its laws, when made in pursuance of…
- The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, alterable when the…
- The constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it.
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- Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. — John Adams
- All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor… — John Adams
- The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it… — Hugo Black