The Judicial Review

The Constitution is either a superior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law, if the latter part be true, then written Constitutions are absurd attempts on the part of the people to limit a power in its own nature illimitable