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The last words Marshall ever uttered as Chief Justice sparkle with vitality and high ideals.
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Beveridge highlights the enduring impact of Marshall's final words as Chief Justice, emphasizing their vitality and ideals.
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Any nation, however, may by statute declare an act to be piratical which is not so by the law of nations; and such an act is punishable only by that particular state and not by other governments.
Such attempts ought to be repelled with a decision which shall convince France and the world that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of…
When we consult the common good, we consult our own." In such considerations were found the greatest security from an improper exercise of power.
Thus provincialism in the form of States' Rights was given a fresh impulse and a new vitality.
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