Albert Beveridge: “History, reason, evidence, march through these pages like infantry, cavalry, and artillery going to battle.”

No! but snatched from time, To bloom afresh in yonder sphere sublime.

Genius, and learning, and consummate skill, Moulding each thought, obedient to the will; Affections pure, as e'er warmed human breast, And love, in blessing others, doubly blest; Virtue unspotted, uncorrupted truth, Gentle in age, and…

There can be little doubt that a majority of the people did not favor the Constitution when adopted by the Convention and ratified by the States.

To Marshall reared--the great, the good, the wise; Born for all ages, honored in all skies; His was the fame to mortals rarely given, Begun on earth, but fixed in aim on heaven.