Albert Beveridge: “Amendment of the Constitution by judicial interpretation is taking the place of amendment by the people.”

On this, the only vital and enduring question involved, Marshall's views were clear and unshakable.

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.

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

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.