Quotes by John Marshall

John Marshall

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

Age

Constitution

Framed

A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.

Business

Corporations

Law

A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.

Constitution

Government

Law

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 taxation.

Law

Limits

Taxation

Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.

Democracies Have

Differences

Order

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.

Government

Law

Void

Courts are the mere instruments of the law, and can will nothing. When they are said to exercise a discretion, it is a mere legal discretion, a discretion to be exercised in discerning the course prescribed by law; and, when that is discerned, it is the duty of the Court to follow it. Judicial power is never exericised for the purpose of giving effect to the will of the Judge; always for the purpose of giving effect to the will of the Legislature; or, in other words, to the will of the law.

Exercise

Judging

Law

Have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress.

Burden

Law

Taxation

I fear we may live to see another revolution.

American Revolution

May

Revolution

I have always believed that national character… depends more on the female part of society than is generally imagined. Precepts from the lips of a beloved mother… sink deep in the heart, and make an impression which is seldom entirely effaced.

Character

Heart

Mother

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Constitution Of The United States

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Democracy

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Doe

Dream

Essence

Evil

Exercise

Eye

Fabric

Fancy

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Government

Health

Heart

Imagine

Important

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Quotes by John Marshall

John Marshall

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

A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.

A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.

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 taxation.

Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.

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.

Have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress.

I fear we may live to see another revolution.

I have always believed that national character… depends more on the female part of society than is generally imagined. Precepts from the lips of a beloved mother… sink deep in the heart, and make an impression which is seldom entirely effaced.

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