The Power To Tax Is The Power

Between A Balanced Republic And A Democracy, The Difference Is Like That Between Order And Chaos.

In A Free Government Almost All Other Rights Would Become Worthless If The Government Possessed Power Over The Private Fortune Of Every Citizen.

That The People Have An Original Right To Establish, For Their Future Government, Such Principles As, In Their Opinion, Shall Most Conduce To Their Own Happiness, Is The Basis, On Which The Whole American Fabric Has Been Erected.... The Principles, Therefore, So Established, Are Deemed Fundamental. And As The Authority, From Which They Proceed, Is Supreme ... They Are Designed To Be Permanent.... The Powers Of The Legislature Are Defined, And Limited; And That Those Limits May Not Be Mistaken, Or Forgotten, The Constitution Is Written.

The Government Of The Union, Then, ... Is, Emphatically, And Truly, A Government Of The People. In Form And In Substance It Emanates From Them. Its Powers Are Granted By Them, And Are To Be Exercised Directly On Them, And For Their Benefit.

It Is Emphatically The Province And Duty Of The Judicial Department To Say What The Law Is.