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Former Chief Justice of the United States

John Marshall, a renowned jurist and politician in the United States, served as the Chief Justice of the United States. Born on September 24, 1755, in Virginia, he passed away on July 6, 1835. Marshall had a profound impact on the judicial field, with his legal principles still being followed in the American legal system today.

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Famous John Marshall Quotes

“The government of the Union, then, ... is, emphatically, and truly, a government of the people. In form and in substance it emanates from them. Its powers are granted by them, and are to be exercised directly on them, and for their benefit.”

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Book:John Marshall's Defense of McCulloch V. Maryland

Source: John Marshall's Defense of McCulloch V. Maryland

“My gift of John Marshall to the people of the United States was the proudest act of my life. There is no act of my life on which I reflect with more pleasure. I have given to my country a judge equal to a Hole, Holt, or a Mansfield.”

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“That the people have an original right to establish, for their future government, such principles as, in their opinion, shall most conduce to their own happiness, is the basis, on which the whole American fabric has been erected.... The principles, therefore, so established, are deemed fundamental. And as the authority, from which they proceed, is supreme ... they are designed to be permanent.... The powers of the legislature are defined, and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken, or forgotten, the constitution is written.”

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“The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will.”

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Book:The Constitutional Decisions of John Marshall

Source: The Constitutional Decisions of John Marshall

“No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States and compounding the American people into one common mass.”

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Book:The Writings of John Marshall: Late Chief Justice of the United States, Upon the Federal Constitution

Source: The Writings of John Marshall: Late Chief Justice of the United States, Upon the Federal Constitution