The Power To Tax Is The Power

Have No Power, By Taxation Or Otherwise, To Retard, Impede, Burden Or In Any Manner Control The Operations Of The Constitutional Laws Enacted By Congress.

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.

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.

Between A Balanced Republic And A Democracy, The Difference Is Like That Between Order And Chaos.

In A Free Government Almost All Other Rights Would Become Worthless If The Government Possessed Power Over The Private Fortune Of Every Citizen.