The Riverside Biographical Series

NUMBER 7

JOHN MARSHALL

BY

JAMES BRADLEY THAYER


portrait of J Marshall

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 byhim at Cambridge on February 4, 1901, before the Harvard Law School andthe Bar Association of the City of Boston, and from an article on JohnMarshall 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 Characteristics1
II.Arguments and Speeches; Life of Washington; Relations with Jefferson39
III.The Beginnings of the Chief Justice’s Career; American Constitutional Law; Marbury v. Madison54
IV.Marshall’s Constitutional Opinions82
V.The Working of our System of Constitutional Law102
VI.Letters of Marshall...

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