The Power To Tax Is The Power

The Power To Tax Involves The Power To Destroy;...the Power To Destroy May Defeat And Render Useless The Power To Create.

The Constitution Is Either A Superior Paramount Law, Unchangeable By Ordinary Means, Or It Is On A Level With Ordinary Legislative Acts, Alterable When The Legislature Shall Please To Alter It. It Is Emphatically The Province And Duty Of The Judicial Department To Say What The Law Is. This Is The Very Essence Of Judicial Duty.

What Is It That Makes Us Trust Our Judges? Their Independence In Office And Manner Of Appointment.

The Institution Of Masonry Ought To Be Abandoned As One Capable Of Much Evil, And Incapable Of Producing Any Good Which Might Not Be Affected By Safe And Open Means.

The Peculiar Circumstances Of The Moment May Render A Measure More Or Less Wise, But Cannot Render It More Or Less Constitutional.