The life of John Marshall . BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY ALBERT J. BEVERIDGEALL RIGHTS KKSERVSD PREFACE Marshalls great Constitutional opinions grew outof, or were addressed to, serious public conditions,national in extent. In these volumes the effort ismade to relate the circumstances that required himto give to the country those marvelous state papers:for Marshalls opinions were nothing less than statepapers and of the first rank. In order to under-stand the full meaning of his deliverances and toestimate the just value of his labors, it is necessaryto kno
The life of John Marshall . BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY ALBERT J. BEVERIDGEALL RIGHTS KKSERVSD PREFACE Marshalls great Constitutional opinions grew outof, or were addressed to, serious public conditions,national in extent. In these volumes the effort ismade to relate the circumstances that required himto give to the country those marvelous state papers:for Marshalls opinions were nothing less than statepapers and of the first rank. In order to under-stand the full meaning of his deliverances and toestimate the just value of his labors, it is necessaryto know the historical sources of his foremost exposi-tions of the Constitution, and the historical pur-poses they were intended to accomplish. Withoutsuch knowledge, Marshalls finest pronouncementsbecome mere legal utterances, important, to besure, but colorless and unattractive. It is worthy of repetition, even in a preface, thatthe history of the times is a part of his greatestopinions; and that, in the treatment of them a res
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