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The object of a Constitution is to restrain the Government, as that of laws is to restrain individuals.
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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...
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Born:
March 18, 1782
Died:
March 31, 1850
(aged 68)
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