But the wiser Marshall saw in the case, as presented to the Supreme Court on the contract guarantee of the Constitution, the occasion to declare, in effect, that these same fundamental principles are embraced in the contract clause of the written Constitution of the American Nation.
Beveridge discusses the significance of the contract clause in the Constitution as interpreted by Marshall.
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