The purpose of his life was to strengthen and enlarge the powers of the National Government; to coördinate into harmonious operation its various departments; and to make it in fact, as well as in principle, the agent of a people constituting a single, a strong, and efficient Nation.
Beveridge outlines Marshall's vision for a strong and efficient national government.
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The Spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
When he promotes his own, he promotes that of the community.
Indeed, he thought them only "an experiment on the American mind to see how far it will bear an avowed violation of the constitution.
Thus provincialism in the form of States' Rights was given a fresh impulse and a new vitality.
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