Political Quotes

Albert Beveridge: “In a brief opinion, in which it is worthy of particular note that the Supreme Court was unanimous, Marshall says that…”

On the record
In a brief opinion, in which it is worthy of particular note that the Supreme Court was unanimous, Marshall says that the Constitution protects "contracts to which a state is a party, as well as ... contracts between individuals....
Said by
Albert Beveridge
Republican · Indiana

Editor's note · Context

Beveridge notes a significant Supreme Court opinion by John Marshall affirming the constitutional protection of contracts involving states.

Share

More from Albert Beveridge

The Experiment, with its foundations laid on universal Suffrage and an unfettered and licentious Press is of too violent a nature for our excitable People.

gutenberg.org

The Richmond Whig and Public Advertiser said that "no man has lived or died in this country, save its father George Washington alone, who united such a warmth of affection for his person, with so deep and unaffected a respect for his…

gutenberg.org

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.

gutenberg.org

That time, however, is unquestionably arrived, and every oppression now exercised on a helpless people depending on our magnanimity and justice for the preservation of their existence impresses a deep stain on the American character.

gutenberg.org

Other voices in this conversation