The Law Does Not Expect A Man

The Government Of The United States Has Been Emphatically Termed A Government Of Laws, And Not Of Men. It Will Certainly Cease To Deserve This High Appellation, If The Laws Furnish No Remedy For The Violation Of A Vested Legal Right.

An Unlimited Power To Tax Involves, Necessarily, A Power To Destroy; Because There Is A Limit Beyond Which No Institution And No Property Can Bear Taxation.

The Most Lively Fancy Aided By The Strongest Description Cannot Equal The Reality Of The Opera.

State Inspection Laws, Health Laws, And Laws For Regulating The Internal Commerce Of A State, And Those Which Respect Turnpike Roads, Ferries, &c. Are Not Within The Power Granted To Congress. ... Inspection Laws, Quarantine Laws, Health Laws Of Every Description, As Well As Laws For Regulating The Internal Commerce Of A State, And Those Which Respect Turnpike Roads, Ferries, &c., Are Component Parts Of This Mass. No Direct General Power Over These Objects Is Granted To Congress, And, Consequently, They Remain Subject To State Legislation.

A Corporation Is An Artificial Being, Invisible, Intangible, And Existing Only In Contemplation Of Law.