[718] Marshall, v, 178-79. Thus Marshall, writing in 1806, states one of the central principles of the Constitution as he interpreted it from the Bench years later in three of the most important of American judicial opinions—Fletcher vs. Peck, Sturgis vs. Crowninshield, and the Dartmouth College case. (See infra, chap. x; also vol. iv, chaps. iv and v, of this work.)
[719] Marshall, v, 198-210.
[720] Ib. 210-13. At this point Marshall is conspicuously, almost ostentatiously impartial, as between Jefferson and Hamilton. His description of the great radical is in terms of praise, almost laudation; the same is true of his analysis of Hamilton's work and character. But he gives free play to his admiration of John Adams. (Ib. 219-20.)
[721] Ib. 230-32.
[722] Marshall, v, 241.
[723] Ib. 243-58.
[724] Ib. 271.
[725] "That system to which the American government afterwards inflexibly adhered, and to which much of the national prosperity is to be ascribed." (Ib. 408.)
[726] See vol. ii, chaps. i to iv, of this work.
[727] Marshall, v, 685-709.