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The Great John Marshall: Part 1

Some claim that Marshall’s views represented an early model for a big federal government and liberal judicial activism. The claim is untrue, as I'll explain.
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The Great John Marshall: Part 1
A portrait of Chief Justice John Marshall, 1834, by Rembrandt Peale. Oil on canvas. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Public Domain
Rob Natelson
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My Epoch Times series “The Founders and the Constitution” covered the lives and contributions of 14 leading American Founders.
Rob Natelson
Rob Natelson
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Robert G. Natelson, a former constitutional law professor who is senior fellow in constitutional jurisprudence at the Independence Institute in Denver, authored “The Original Constitution: What It Actually Said and Meant” (3rd ed., 2015). He is a contributor to The Heritage Foundation’s “Heritage Guide to the Constitution.”