![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 . . .](/assets/img/quote-photos/to-maintain-the-ascendancy-of-the-constitution-over-the-lawmaking-majority-is-the.jpg)
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