John C. Calhoun Quote

To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of the [American] system must depend; unless that ascendancy can be preserved, the necessary consequence must be that the laws will supersede the Constitution; and, finally, the will of the Executive, by influence of its patronage, will supersede the laws...


Speech of Mr. Calhoun...: On the Bill Further to Provide for the Collection of Duties on Imports (ed. 1833)


To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of the [American]...

To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of the [American]...

To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of the [American]...

To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of the [American]...