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  • Jan 01, 1870

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  1. United States Vs. Marigold US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1850
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  2. Faw Vs. Marsteller US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1804
  3. Fletcher Vs. Peck US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1810
  4. Calder Vs. Bull US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1798
  5. Bank Vs. Supervisors US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1868
  6. Hepburn Vs. Griswold US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1869
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  7. Lane County Vs. Oregon US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1868
  8. and sale made pursuant to statutes of the late rebel confederacy, passed in aid of their rebellion, is void. Texas v. While
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  9. Congress known as the Legal Tender are constitutional, when applied to contracts made before their passage. Hepburn v. Griswold
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  10. point overruled. 3. They are also valid as applicable to contracts made since. The case in the FIRST one, Knox v. Lee
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  11. act under the obligation of an oath of fidelity to the Constitution. Such has always been the rule. In Commonwealth v. Smith
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  12. and, in Fletcher v. Peck
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  13. brief and comprehensive. It prescribes outlines, leaving the filling up to be deduced from the outlines. In Martin v. Hunter
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  14. And with singular clearness was it said by Chief Justice Marshall, in McCulloch v. State
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  15. was intended to confer upon the government the power of self-preservation. Said Chief Justice Marshall in Cohens v. Bank
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  16. doubts that this was rightfully done, and the power thus exercised has been affirmed by this Court in United States v. Marigold
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  17. the government. Clearly this necessity, if any existed, was not a direct and obvious one. Yet this Court, in McCulloch v. Maryland
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  18. the government of the United States, or in any of its departments or officers, has long since been settled. In Fisher v. Blight
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  19. to be an eligible means to enable the government to pay the debts of the Union. It was, however, in McCulloch v. Maryland
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  20. It is hardly necessary to say that these principles are received with universal assent. Even in Hepburn v. Griswold
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  21. both the majority and minority of the court concurred in accepting the doctrines of McCulloch v. Maryland
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  22. if it have any appropriateness, is for consideration in Congress, not here. Said Chief Justice Marshall, in McCulloch v. Maryland
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  23. loans from liability to state taxation, are only a few of the many which might be given. The case of Veazie Bank v. Fenno
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  24. contracts made either before or after their passage. In so holding, we overrule so much of what was decided in Hepburn v. Griswold
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  25. it as our duty so to decide and to affirm both these judgments. The other questions raised in the case of Knox v. Lee
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  26. were substantially decided in Texas v. White
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  27. Stat. at Large 345, 532, 709. For the form of the notes mentioned in the text, See Bank v. Supervisors
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  28. and for the exact language of the acts, see Lane County v. Oregon
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  29. Wall. 74, and Hepburn v. Griswold
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  30. Fisher v. Blight
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  31. Apsden v. Austin
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  32. Dunn v. Sayles
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  33. Coffin v. Landis
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  34. Barrington v. Potter
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  35. Dobbins v. Brown
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  36. Workman v. Mifflin
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  37. Briscoe v. Bank
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  38. I differ from my brethren in the decision of one of the cases now before the court, to-wit, the case of Tribilcock v. Wilson
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  39. purpose after Chief Justice Marshall's profound discussion of the powers of Congress in the great case of McCulloch v. State
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  40. question of power as so important to the stability of the government, I cannot acquiesce in the decision of Hepburn v. Griswold
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  41. be remembered, that this Court, at the very term in which, and within a few weeks after, the decision in Hepburn v. Griswold
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  42. implied power is to be tried is no longer, in this Court, open to question. It was laid down in the case of McCulloch v. Maryland
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  43. in pursuance of the Constitution are not laws. Neither of these propositions was questioned in the case of Hepburn v. Griswold
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  44. upon the question. Their convictions, however, remain unchanged. We adhere to the opinion pronounced in Hepburn v. Griswold
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  45. in McCulloch v. Maryland
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  46. of opinion in the Court as to the rule by which the existence of an implied power is to be tested, when Hepburn v. Griswold
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  47. to that power and to the Page 79 U. S. 575 power to regulate commerce. This was the doctrine of Veazie Bank v. Fenno
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  48. on the ground that it was a necessary and proper means, within the definition of the Court in the case of McCulloch v. Maryland
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  49. its own. Now it is a common error, and in our judgment it was the error of the opinion of the minority in Hepburn v. Griswold
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  50. And this Court, in Gwin v. Breedlove
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