But Georgia cannot be viewed as a single unconnected sovereign power on whose legislature no other restrictions are imposed than may be found in its own constitution. She is part of a large empire, she is a member of the American union; and that union has a constitution, the supremacy of which all acknowledge, and which imposes limits to the legislatures of the several states, which none claim a right to pass.
John Marshall, Opinion in Fletcher v. Peck, March 16, 1810
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