1803 · Skopia

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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

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour

Auguries of Innocence · 1803

★ 7.0

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

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

A Truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the Lies you can invent

Auguries of Innocence · 1803

★ 3.8

Lecture · Philosophical literature

Architecture in general is frozen music.

Friedrich von Schelling

1803

★ 3.6

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Jacques Delille

1803

★ 3.6

Personal journal

We walked up to the house and stood some minutes watching the swallows that flew about restlessly, and flung their shadows upon the sunbright walls of the old building; the shadows glanced and twinkled, interchanged and crossed each other, expanded and shrunk up, appeared and disappeared every instant.

Dorothy Wordsworth

1803

★ 3.5

Oh why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like the rest of my race?

1803

★ 2.0