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It was a guarantee that they might build railroads across State lines and be safe from local interference with interstate traffic.
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Beveridge describes the legal assurance provided by Marshall's opinion for interstate railroad construction.
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As the French storm increased, its winds blew ever stronger over the responsive waters of American opinion.
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 Alien and Sedition Laws were, they asserted, the beginning of monarchy, the foundation of absolutism.
The Constitution's enemies, thus far out-pointed by its perfectly trained and harmonious supporters, could delay no longer.
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