Marshall's greatness is the product of his belief in the now-unfashionable presupposition that there are right answers to legal questions.
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Mar 6, 2019
Unlike our latter-day advocates of judicial engagement, Marshall saw that the separation of powers embodied principled limits on the judge’s role.
Dec 17, 2018
What could be worse than attributing a crime to John Marshall and his brother? Justifying it, which is in effect what this biographer does.
Nov 15, 2018
Mar 21, 2019
Those who rejected the very premises of the 1787 Constitution, as John Marshall understood them, had to be faced down.
Jan 31, 2019
Long before Robert Bork or Edwin Meese made such arguments, John Marshall’s Dartmouth College v. Woodward opinion advanced a principled originalism.
Mar 12, 2018
Taney may well deserve to be “hooted down the page of history,” but it is unfair to take Marshall and Story with him.