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.

JOHN MARSHALL

[CHAPTER I]
HIS LIFE BEFORE BECOMING CHIEF JUSTICE; HIS PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS