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Category: John Marshall

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

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

Trust, Judges, Office

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.

Great, Influence, Political

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

Powerful, Influence, Listen

The power to tax involves the power to destroy.

It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.

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.

constitution, law, taxes

. . . a constitution, intended toendure for ages to come, andconsequently, to be adapted to thevarious crises of human affairs.