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1 " . . . a constitution, intended toendure for ages to come, andconsequently, to be adapted to thevarious crises of human affairs. "
― John Marshall
2 " The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. "
3 " The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him. "
4 " 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. "
5 " It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is. "
6 " The power to tax involves the power to destroy. "
7 " The power to tax is the power to destroy. "
8 " I am N!ai. When the white people first came, I was already a young woman with breasts. Before the white people came, we did what our hearts wanted. We lived in different places, far apart, and when our hearts wanted to travel, we traveled. We were not poor; we had everything we could carry. No one told us what to do. Now the white people tell us to stay in this place. There are too many people. There’s no food to gather. Game is far away, and people are dying of tuberculosis. But when I was a little girl, we left sickness behind us when we moved. "
9 " The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their will, and lives only by their will. "
10 " ...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 law repugnant to the Constitution is void; and that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument. "
11 " An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy "
