Alexander Hamilton Quote

"[A] limited Constitution ... can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing ... To deny this would be to affirm … that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid."

By:	Alexander Hamilton (more quotes by Alexander Hamilton or books by/about Alexander Hamilton)
	(1757-1804) American statesman, Secretary of the Treasury
Categories:	Constitution, Judiciary, Corruption
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