Acts Quote by John Marshall

The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by…

— Alexander Hamilton

It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is...If two laws conflict with each other, the…

— John Marshall

A constitution, therefore, is to a government what the laws made afterwards by that government are to a court of judicature. The court of…

— Thomas Paine

“A constitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact. It has not an ideal, but a real existence; and wherever it…

— Thomas Paine

A constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by judges, as a fundamental law. It therefore belongs to them to ascertain its meaning,…

— Alexander Hamilton

A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are established, limited,…

— Samuel Freeman Miller

The laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the organization of…

— Aristotle

But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.

— William H. Seward

The important distinction so well understood in America between a constitution established by the people, and unalterable by the government; and a law established…

— James Madison

The Constitution is what the judges say it is.

— Charles Evans Hughes

The very idea of the law in a constitutional republic involves the requisite that it be a rule, a guide, uniform, fixed and equal,…

— Levi Woodbury

It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.

— John Marshall