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Marshall, John

  1. A public official of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Marshall served as chief justice of the Supreme Court from 1801 to 1835. His interpretations of the Constitution in cases such as served to strengthen the power of the Court and the power of the federal government generally.


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As John Marshall and Daniel Webster long ago pointed out, the power to tax involves the power to destroy.

John Marshall, never a friend to Jefferson, so narrowly defined "treason", however, that Burr was acquitted.

I interposed, recalling my stormy interviews with John Marshall Glenarm over my choice of a profession.

It smacks of your ancient vindictiveness, and John Marshall Glenarm had none of that in his blood.

John Marshall Glenarm had explicitly provided against any such frustration of his plans.

Here was an exercise of National power such as John Marshall had never dreamed of.

The humblest and poorest man in Virginia was not more unpretentious than John Marshall.

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