Albert Beveridge: “The same want of a general power over Commerce led to an exercise of this power separately, by the States, w^{ch} not…”

The Virginians, on their part, found the giving of new notes a convenient way of canceling old obligations and thus piled up mountains of debt which they found hard to remove.

The nature of men forbids us to conclude that we are in no danger from war.

Would they abandon their posts as judges, and the interests of millions committed to them, to serve the purposes of a single individual?

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.