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Marshall's great Constitutional opinions grew out of, or were addressed to, serious public conditions, national in extent. In these volumes the effort is made to relate the circumstances that required him to give to the country those marvelous state papers: for Marshall's opin...
When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights. The people can act only by their ag...
13. CHAPTER IXNo person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court. (Constitution, Article III, Section 3.)
10. CHAPTER VII never believed him to be a Fool. But he must be an Idiot or a Lunatic if he has really planned and attempted to execute such a Project as is imputed to him. But if his guilt i...
12. CHAPTER VIIIOn May 22, 1807, the hall of the House of Delegates at Richmond was densely crowded long before the hour of half-past twelve, when John Marshall took his seat upon the bench and...
7. CHAPTER IV"We _want your offices_, for the purpose of giving them to men who will fill them better." In these frank words, Senator William Branch Giles[430] of Virginia stated one of the...
6. CHAPTER IIIThe constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts alterable when the legislature shall plea...
11. CHAPTER VIIWhile Washington was still agitated by the President's Special Message, the long winter voyage of Bollmann and Swartwout ended at Baltimore, and Burr's dazed dispatch-bearers we...
4. CHAPTER IA strange sight met the eye of the traveler who, aboard one of the little river sailboats of the time, reached the stretches of the sleepy Potomac separating Alexandria and Geor...
5. CHAPTER IIOn January 6, 1802, an atmosphere of intense but suppressed excitement pervaded the little semi-circular room where the Senate of the United States was in session.[146] The Repu...
8. CHAPTER VThat work was hurried into the world with too much precipitation. It is one of the most desirable objects I have in this life to publish a corrected edition. (Marshall.)
3. Chapter Three of Volume Three (Marbury _vs._ Madison) has been read bythe Honorable Oliver Wendell Holmes, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; by the Honorable Philander Chase Knox, United States Senator; and by Mr. James...
9. letter forty-four different titles are called for.[680] Same to same, Sept. 20, 1806, Wayne MSS. _loc. cit._ This letter is written from Augusta, Georgia. Among other books ordered in it, Weems names twelve copies each of "Sall...
2. VOLUME IIIMarshall's great Constitutional opinions grew out of, or were addressed to, serious public conditions, national in extent. In these volumes the effort is made to relate the circ...
1. VOLUME III