“This provision is made in a constitution, intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs.John Marshall
“No matther whether th’ constitution follows th’ flag or not, th’ supreme coort follows th’ iliction returns.Finley Peter Dunne
“If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun
“But this momentous question [the Missouri Compromise], like a firebell in the night awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it the knell of the Union.Thomas Jefferson
“I recognize without hesitation that judges do and must legislate, but they can do so only interstitially; they are confined from molar to molecular motions.Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.)