The Federal Government Is Acknowledged By All

The Federal Government Is Acknowledged By All To Be One Of Enumerated Powers. The Principle, That It Can Exercise Only The Powers Granted To It . . . Is Now Universally Admitted.

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

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.

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

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.