Will Marshall
Will Marshall
Will Marshall is one of the founders of the New Democrat movement, which aims to steer the US Democratic Party toward a more conservative orientation. Since its founding in 1989, he has been president of the Progressive Policy Institute, a think tank affiliated with the Democratic Leadership Council...
business law corporations
A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.
justice democracy adherence
What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.
powerful color law
Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful.
men law united-states
The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. It will certainly cease to deserve this high appellation, if the laws furnish no remedy for the violation of a vested legal right.
rights government citizens
In a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.
liberty useless may
The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create....
mean law essence
The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. This is the very essence of judicial duty.
country judging people
My gift of John Marshall to the people of the United States was the proudest act of my life. There is no act of my life on which I reflect with more pleasure. I have given to my country a judge equal to a Hole, Holt, or a Mansfield.
law judicial-review legislature
It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.
exercise government principles
The federal government is acknowledged by all to be one of enumerated powers. The principle, that it can exercise only the powers granted to it . . . is now universally admitted.
yield return compromise
To obtain a just compromise, concession must not only mutual-it must be equal also....There can be no hope that either will yield more than it gets in return.
order differences democracies-have
Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.
government people substance
The government of the Union, then, ... is, emphatically, and truly, a government of the people. In form and in substance it emanates from them. Its powers are granted by them, and are to be exercised directly on them, and for their benefit.
law taxation limits
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.