But is it not new doctrine to declare, that the Legislature by merely changing the name of a court or the place of its meeting, may remove any Judge from his office?

We thought that we had republican precedent for this--a precedent given us by the wisest and truest patriots that ever were assembled: but that is now past.

But all know this, that if either extreme is carried, it must leave a wound in the breast of the opposite party which will fester and rankle, and produce I know not what mischief." The conservatives were now the majority of the convention…

I hailed these auspicious appearances with as much joy, as the inhabitant of the polar regions hails the re-appearance of the sun after his long absence of six tedious months.

It must be so, if we cannot meet on equal ground.

He held that the Missouri loan certificates were bills of credit, which the National Constitution prohibited any State to issue.

Incontestably the Missouri loan certificates are just such bills of credit.

The Union has been prolonged thus far by miracles.

I have a repugnance to abandoning you under such circumstances which is almost invincible.

Marshall's opinions were, for the most part, erroneous and "ought not to control the co-ordinate authorities of this Government.

The Congress, the Executive, and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution....

It is as much the duty of the House of Representatives, of the Senate, and of the President to decide upon the constitutionality of any bill or resolution which may be presented to them for passage or approval as it is of the supreme…

The opinion of the judges has no more authority over Congress than the opinion of Congress has over the judges, and on that point the President is independent of both.

The Constitution, the laws and treaties of the United States are prostrate in the State of Georgia.

Because the Executive of the United States is in League with the State of Georgia....

The Union is in the most imminent danger of dissolution....

But the statesman and jurist again rose above the man of sentiment, law above emotion, the enduring above the transient.

Nullification involved no danger, and if it did, what matter!--"those who fear to defend their rights, have none.

The decision by States of the constitutionality of acts of Congress would destroy the Nation, he wrote.

The Federal Union;--it must be preserved," was the solemn and inspiring toast proposed by the President.

I yield slowly and reluctantly to the conviction that our constitution cannot last.

I had supposed that north of the Potowmack a firm and solid government competent to the security of rational liberty might be preserved.

Our opinions are incompatible with a united government even among ourselves.

Prepare for the crisis, and ... meet it as becomes men and freemen....

On you depends in a high degree the future destiny of this republic.