Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it.

If the end be clearly comprehended within any of the specified powers, and if the measure have an obvious relation to that end, and is not forbidden by any par…

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United…

As an exercise of raw judicial power, the Court perhaps has authority to do what it does today; but, in my view, its judgment is an improvident and extravagant…