No One Imagines That A Law Professing

This Government Is Acknowledged By All, To Be One Of Enumerated Powers.

The Government Of The United States Has Been Emphatically Termed A Government Of Laws, And Not Of Men. It Will Certainly Cease To Deserve This High Appellation, If The Laws Furnish No Remedy For The Violation Of A Vested Legal Right.

Whether A Law Be Void For Its Repugnancy To The Constitution, Is, At All Times, A Question Of Much Delicacy, Which Out Seldom, If Ever, To Be Decided In The Affirmative, In Doubtful Case. ... But It Is Not On Slight Implication And Vague Conjecture That The Legislature Is To Be Pronounced To Have Transcended Its Powers, And Its Acts To Be Considered As Void. The Opposition Between The Constitution And The Law Should Be Such That The Judge Feels A Clear And Strong Conviction Of Their Incompatibility With Each Other.

Seldom Has A Battle, In Which Greater Numbers Were Not Engaged, Been So Important In Its Consequences As That Of Cowpens.

The Peculiar Circumstances Of The Moment May Render A Measure More Or Less Wise, But Cannot Render It More Or Less Constitutional.