[R]efusing or not refusing to execute a law to stamp it with its final character . . . makes the Judiciary department paramount in fact to the Legislature, which was never intended and can never be proper.

Safety is always a paramount concern for us.

Religion, to have any force upon men’s understandings,–indeed, to exist at all,–must be supposed paramount to law, and independent for its substance upon any human institution, else it would be the absurdist thing in the world,–an acknowledged cheat.