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John Marshall

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John Marshall

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“The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will.”
— Cohens v. Virginia, 19 U.S. (6 Wheaton) 264, 387 (1821)
“It is the peculiar province of the legislature to prescribe general rules for the government of society; the application of those rules to individuals in society would seem to be the duty of other departments.”
— Fletcher v. Peck, 10 U.S. (6 Cranch) 87, 128 (1810)
“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.”
— In the Trial of Aaron Burr, August 1807
“The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not hear a damned word he says.”
— Reportedly said to a young John Bannister Gibson, who later became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, when Gibson remarked that Marshall had reached the acme of judicial distinction; in David Goldsmith Loth, Chief Justice: John Marshall and the Growth of the Republic (1949), p. 275. See also Albert J. Beveridge, "Life of John Marshall" (1919)
“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.”
— 5. U.S. (1 Cranch) 137, at 177
“We must never forget that it is a constitution we are expounding.”
— 17 U.S. (4 Wheaton) 316, 407

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Notable quotes

“The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will.”
— Cohens v. Virginia, 19 U.S. (6 Wheaton) 264, 387 (1821)
“It is the peculiar province of the legislature to prescribe general rules for the government of society; the application of those rules to individuals in society would seem to be the duty of other departments.”
— Fletcher v. Peck, 10 U.S. (6 Cranch) 87, 128 (1810)
“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.”
— In the Trial of Aaron Burr, August 1807
“The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not hear a damned word he says.”
— Reportedly said to a young John Bannister Gibson, who later became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, when Gibson remarked that Marshall had reached the acme of judicial distinction; in David Goldsmith Loth, Chief Justice: John Marshall and the Growth of the Republic (1949), p. 275. See also Albert J. Beveridge, "Life of John Marshall" (1919)
“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.”
— 5. U.S. (1 Cranch) 137, at 177
“We must never forget that it is a constitution we are expounding.”
— 17 U.S. (4 Wheaton) 316, 407

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.