Albert Beveridge: “But despite the peril, Marshall resolved to act.”

The Constitution's enemies, thus far out-pointed by its perfectly trained and harmonious supporters, could delay no longer.

My God! what a situation has our country reached.

Indeed, he thought them only "an experiment on the American mind to see how far it will bear an avowed violation of the constitution.

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…