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Before closing, Marshall answered the threats of Hay and Wirt that, if he decided in favor of Burr, he would be impeached: "That this court dares not usurp power is most true.
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Beveridge highlights the independence of the court in the face of political pressure during a significant treason trial.
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In the development of John Marshall as well as of his great ultimate antagonist, Thomas Jefferson, during the formative decade which we are now to consider, the influence of the French Revolution must never be forgotten.
Heart-breaking and pitiful was the aspect of these soldiers of liberty.
The passions of men stimulate them to avail themselves of the weakness of others.
Indeed, he thought them only "an experiment on the American mind to see how far it will bear an avowed violation of the constitution.
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