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In short, on land and sea America had stood up to, had really beaten, the tremendous Power that had overthrown the mighty Napoleon.
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Beveridge summarizes America's military successes against formidable European powers.
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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.
Through nearly all the important legislation and diplomacy of those stirring and interpretative years ran, with ever increasing clearness, the dividing line of Nationalism as against localism.
The Constitution of Virginia of 1776 was the basis upon which was built one of the most perfect political machines ever constructed; and this machine in later years came to be Marshall's great antagonist.
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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