George Will’s Sunday column is a nice tribute to Chief Justice John Marshall, who (as I recently posted) was born 250 years ago September 24. It’s a good column, marred only by two small things.
The Origin Story of Texan High Culture David Lynch’s Anti–Political Correctness A new biography explores the long-running rivalry between the Federalist chief justice John Marshall and his ...
‘Great bars make great judges,’ observed the late John Chipman Gray. ‘Chief Justice Marshall would never have reached his summit alone, nor if his early legal associates had been a company ...
John Marshall, the “great Chief Justice” (1803-35), was especially concerned with civic education of the young, and his judicious statesmanship stands as a model from which we today can benefit. By ...
Madison to say what the court’s power is, is remarkable,” she said, referring to the foundational opinion written by Chief ...