Albert Beveridge: “The Federalists enacted the Alien and Sedition Laws and thus hastened their own downfall.”

Thus provincialism in the form of States' Rights was given a fresh impulse and a new vitality.

Through nearly all the important legislation and diplomacy of those stirring and interpretative years ran, with ever increasing clearness, the dividing line of Nationalism as against localism.

But an act universally recognized as criminal, such as robbery, murder, and the like, "is an offense against the community of nations.

Marshall's strange power of personality which, in after years, was so determining an influence on the destiny of the country, together with the combined influence of his father and of the State Treasurer, Jacquelin Ambler, Marshall's…