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First Principles: The Legislative Department Is Everywhere Extending the Sphere Of Its Activity and Drawing All Power Into Its Impetuous Vortex
“The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.” – James Madison (1788)
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First Principles: I Beg To Know Upon What Principle It Can Be Contended That Any One Department Draws From the Constitution Greater Powers
“I acknowledge, in the ordinary course of government, that the exposition of the laws and Constitution devolves upon the judicial. But I beg to know upon what principle it can be contended that any one department draws from the Constitution … Continue reading
First Principles: It Is Emphatically the Province and Duty of the Judicial Department To Say What the Law is
“It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.” – Chief Justice John Marshall, in Marbury v. Madison (1803)
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