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Person·John Marshall✕clear

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writing

The Cherokee nation...is a distinct community, occupying its own territory...which the citizens of Georgia have no right to enter but with the assent of the Cherokees themselves, or in conformity with treaties and with the acts of Congress.

Worcester v. Georgia · 1832

★ 1.9

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writing

Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the Constitution, and all means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to that end, which are not prohibited, but consist with the letter and spirit of the Constitution, are Constitutional.

McCulloch v. Maryland · 1819

★ 3.6

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writing

The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their will, and lives only by their will.

Cohens v. Virginia · 1821

★ 3.6

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writing

The power to tax involves the power to destroy.

McCulloch v. Maryland · 1819

★ 3.7

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writing

We must never forget that it is a Constitution we are expounding.

McCulloch v. Maryland · 1819

★ 3.8

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writing

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.

Marbury v. Madison · 1803

★ 4.5

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writing

It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is... If two laws conflict with each other, the Courts must decide on the operation of each... This is of the very essence of judicial duty.

Marbury v. Madison · 1803

★ 5.4

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writing

The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men.

Marbury v. Madison · 1803

★ 7.0