JOHN MARSHALL

BY
JAMES BRADLEY THAYER

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1901
COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY JAMES BRADLEY THAYER
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

PREFATORY NOTE

The writer has drawn with entire freedom from an address delivered by him at Cambridge on February 4, 1901, before the Harvard Law School and the Bar Association of the City of Boston, and from an article on John Marshall in the Atlantic Monthly for March, 1901.

J. B. T.

Cambridge, March 30, 1901.

CONTENTS

CHAP.PAGE
[I.][His Life before becoming Chief Justice; his Personal Characteristics][1]
[II.][Arguments and Speeches; Life of Washington; Relations with Jefferson][39]
[III.][The Beginnings of the Chief Justice’s Career; American Constitutional Law; Marbury v. Madison][54]
[IV.][Marshall’s Constitutional Opinions][82]
[V.][The Working of our System of Constitutional Law][102]
[VI.][Letters of Marshall][111]
[VII.][Marshall as a Citizen and a Neighbor][123]
[VIII.][His Last Days][147]

The portrait is from a miniature by St. Mémin.