The opinion of The Federalist has always been considered as of great authority. It is a complete commentary on our Constitution, and is appealed
to by all parties in the questions to which that instrument has given birth.
Its intrinsic merit entitles it to this high rank, and the part two of its authors performed in framing the Constitution, put it very much in their
power to explain the views with which it was framed.
Chief Justice John Marshall, in Cohens v. Virginia (1821)