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...Oliver Ellsworth, afterward Chief Justice, declared that: "If the United States go beyond thenpowers, if they make a law which the Constitution does not...be made independent, will declare it to be void." These three men were members of the constitutional convention which framed the Constitution. John Marshall,...

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...government should at any time overleap their limits, the judicial department is a constitutional check. If the United States go beyond their powers, if they...judges, who, to secure their impartiality, are to be independent, will declare it void." (Ibid., II, 196.) In some respects the most significant statement...

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...question of constitutionality was often discussed. In the Connecticut convention Mr. Elsworth said, "If the United States go beyond their powers, if they...; and the judicial power, the national judges, who in order to secure their impartiality, are to be made independent, will declare it to be void."5 Samuel...

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