M'Culloch v. Maryland · ¶66

But is this a case of confidence? Would the people of. any one State trust those of another: with a power - to control the most, insignificant operations of their State government? We know they would not. Why, then, should' we suppose that the people of ány one State should be willing to trust those of another with a power to control the operations of a government to which they have confided their most important and most valuable interests? In the legislature of the Union alone, are all represented. The legislature of the Union alone, therefore, can be trusted by the people with the power of controlling measures which concern all, in the confidence that it will not be abused. This, then, is not a case of confidence, and we must consider it as it really is..

U. S. Reports, bound volume
U. S. Reports, volume 17, at 316 (Library of Congress) · transcription: Caselaw Access Project
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