...the judgments of the courts of the United States, and the rights thereby acquired, the constitution becomes a solemn mockery, and the nation is deprived of the means of enforcing its laws, by its own tribunal. So fatal a result must be deprecated by all; and the people of every state must feel...

...Marshall spoke eloquently: "If the legislatures of the several states may, at will, annul the judgments of the courts of the United States, and destroy the rights...the constitution itself becomes a solemn mockery..." If a Governor could somehow order such a fiat, the ennobling restrictions of the Constitution would...

...they could lawfully do such an act, the Constitution would become a solemn mockery, and the nation be deprived of the means of enforcing its laws by the instrumentality of its own tribunals. The right to determine the jurisdiction of the Courts of the Union necessarily resided in the Supreme...