Albert Beveridge: “Whence this effort to endow the National Government with powers comparable to those of a monarchy?”

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.

So overwhelming was the popular feeling against a strong National Government that, if the Anti-Constitutionalists had concentrated their attack upon this secret purpose of the leading Constitutionalists to make it such by easy stages, it…

It could borrow money, but could not levy taxes or impose duties to pay the debt.

The nature of men forbids us to conclude that we are in no danger from war.