It is clear that the judicial department is authorized to exercise jurisdiction to the full extent of the constitution, laws, and treaties of the United States, whenever any question respecting them shall assume such a form that the judicial power is capable of acting upon it.
Mann asserts the authority of the judicial department to act on constitutional matters.
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I answer, that this difference which they so be-little and disparage will often be all the difference between freedom and bondage, between life and death, between honor and infamy, between happiness and perdition.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.
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