"Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions……" — John Marshall

"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 every such government must be, that an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void."

— John Marshall

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