"Let us not forget it is a Constitution we are expounding"

Factual Questions
1

I’m trying to track down the above quotation (quoted from memory, so I may not have got it quite right). In which decision did Chief Justice Marshall say that?

2

http://www.louisville.edu/~tcmack01/316syl.html says it was John Marshall. (I just left off the “Let us not forget” part.)

3

McCulloch v. Maryland, 17 U.S. (4 Wheat.) 316, 407 (1819)

–Cliffy

4

Great! Thanks, Cliffy.

5

Oh, yes!
Expound me!
Expound me!

6

It’s also sometimes spelled M’Culloch, which is good to know if you’re researching secondary sources.

–Cliffy