Albert Beveridge: “A weaker man than John Marshall, and one less wise and courageous, would have dismissed the appeal or decided the case…”

So overwhelming was the popular feeling against a strong National Government that, if the Anti-Constitutionalists had concentrated their attack upon this secret purpose of the leading Constitutionalists to make it such by easy stages, it…

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 first duties of a good citizen--Reverence for the Laws and Respect for the Magistracy.

History, reason, evidence, march through these pages like infantry, cavalry, and artillery going to battle.