When estimating our indebtedness to John Marshall, we must have in mind the state of the country at the time his Constitutional expositions were pronounced and the inevitable and ruinous effect that feebler and more restricted assertions of Nationalism would then have had.
Beveridge emphasizes the significance of John Marshall's constitutional interpretations in shaping the nation during a critical period.
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