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Problems of this character, Marshall explains, must be solved by European countries, not by the United States.
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “Problems of this character, Marshall explains, must be solved by European countries, not by the United States.”
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Beveridge records Marshall's belief that international problems should be resolved by European nations rather than the United States, advocating for American neutrality.
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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.
The Spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
The genius of the Constitution, and the opinions of the people of the United States, cannot be overruled by those who administer the Government.
Indeed, he thought them only "an experiment on the American mind to see how far it will bear an avowed violation of the constitution.
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