Excerpt from Chief Justice Marshall and the Constitutional Law of His Time I shall ask your attention to some observations, more desultory than I hoped to make them, on the subject of Chief Justice Marshall, and the constitutional law of his time. If Marshall had been only what I suppose all the world ad mits he was, a great lawyer and a very great judge, his life, after all, might have had no greater historical significance, in the strict sense of the term, than the lives of many other illus trions Americans, who in their day and generation have served and adorned their country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.