Look  but  at  the  exercise  of  two  or  three  branches  of  its  ordinary  powers.  It  levies
all  taxes;  it  directs  and  appropriates  all  supplies;  it  gives  the  rules  for  the  descent,
distribution,  and  devises  of  all  property  held  by  individuals;  it  controls  the  sources
and  the  resources  of  wealth;  it  changes  at  its  will  the  whole  fabric  of  the  laws;  it
molds  at  its  pleasure  almost  all  the  institutions  which  give  strength  and  comfort  and
dignity  to  society.
