Maryland, and denying the power of Congress to give the States the right of such taxation, because by so doing they violated the Constitution.

The amendment was defeated, and the bill for the continuance of the charter passed both Houses by large majorities.
Jackson returned the bill with a veto.

He had the audacity to rest his veto upon the ground that the bill was unconstitutional, and that it was the duty of the President to decide upon the constitutionality of every measure without feeling in the least bound by the opinion of Congress or of the Supreme Court.

His ignorance was so crass that he failed to perceive the distinction between a new bill and one to continue an existing law, while his vanity and his self-assumption were so colossal that he did not hesitate to assert that he had the right and the power to declare an existing law, passed by Congress, approved by Madison, and held to be constitutional by an express decision of the Supreme Court, to be invalid, because he thought fit to say so.

To overthrow such doctrines was not difficult, but Mr.Webster refuted them with a completeness and force which were irresistible.