What is it that makes us trust our judges? Their independence in office and manner of appointment.

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• John Marshall:

  The events of my life are too unimportant, and have too little interest for any person not of my im

• John Marshall:

  I was born on the 24th of September 1755 in the county of Fauquier, at that time one of the frontie

• John Marshall:

  My father superintended the English part of my education, and to his care I am indebted for anythin

• John Marshall:

  I have always believed that national character... depends more on the female part of society than i

• John Marshall:

  If the agency of the mother in forming the character of her children is, in truth, so considerable,

• John Marshall:

  The government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action,

• John Marshall:

  The power to tax is the power to destroy.

• John Marshall:

  When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a rep

• John Marshall:

  The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a

• John Marshall:

  The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the