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What is it that makes us trust our judges? Their independence in office and manner of appointment.

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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.

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To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

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The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury. One of the first duties of government is to afford that protection.

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I have always believed that national character... depends more on the female part of society than is generally imagined. Precepts from the lips of a beloved mother... sink deep in the heart, and make an impression which is seldom entirely effaced.

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The government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action, and its laws, when made in pursuance of the constitution, form the supreme law of the land.

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During intervals of humanity, some disposition has been manifested to permit the return of those who have never offended, who have been banished by a terror which the government itself has reprobated, & to permit in case of arrestation, an investigation of the fact of emigration as well as of the identity of the person accus'd.

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The constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it.

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The French Revolution will be found to have had great influence on the strength of parties, and on the subsequent political transactions of the United States.

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When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Judge

Born: September 24th, 1755

Died: July 6th, 1835

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