Albert Beveridge: “Nothing less than the prostration of the National Government "at the feet of every state in the Union....”

The Constitution of Virginia of 1776 was the basis upon which was built one of the most perfect political machines ever constructed; and this machine in later years came to be Marshall's great antagonist.

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

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

The Alien and Sedition Laws were, they asserted, the beginning of monarchy, the foundation of absolutism.