A Legislative Act Contrary To The Constitution

The Institution Of Masonry Ought To Be Abandoned As One Capable Of Much Evil, And Incapable Of Producing Any Good Which Might Not Be Affected By Safe And Open Means.

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.

No Political Dreamer Was Ever Wild Enough To Think Of Breaking Down The Lines Which Separate The States And Compounding The American People Into One Common Mass.

The French Revolution Will Be Found To Have Had Great Influence On The Strength Of Parties, And On The Subsequent Political Transactions Of The United States.

When A Law Is In Its Nature A Contract, When Absolute Rights Have Vested Under That Contract, A Repeal Of The Law Cannot Divest Those Rights.