He was against imprisonment for debt, one of the many brutal customs still practiced.
Albert Beveridge: “He was against imprisonment for debt, one of the many brutal customs still practiced.”
Editor's note · Context
Beveridge highlights Marshall's opposition to the harsh practice of imprisoning individuals for debt, reflecting a progressive view on justice.
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There was about him so little of 'the insolence of office,' and so much of the benignity of the man, that his presence always produced ... the most delightful impressions.
That time, however, is unquestionably arrived, and every oppression now exercised on a helpless people depending on our magnanimity and justice for the preservation of their existence impresses a deep stain on the American character.
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To Marshall reared--the great, the good, the wise; Born for all ages, honored in all skies; His was the fame to mortals rarely given, Begun on earth, but fixed in aim on heaven.





