John Marshall

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Excerpt from John Marshall: Chief Justice, United States Supreme Court, 1901-1835, a Discourse Delivered at the First Parish Church, Framingham, January 27th, 1901 The Constitution of the United States, for so important a document, is remarkable on account of its brevity. You can read it aloud, amendments and all, in twenty-three or four minutes. It is only about half as long as the Constitution of the little Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Its lofty purposes are stated with great clearness and force in the preamble. But the powers granted to the federal government by the people were of such a general nature that differences of opinion and conflict of laws would inevitably arise. For interpretation and adjudication a court of final appeal was established, and its members were placed beyond the reach of party spirit or popular feeling. This court, the Supreme Court of the United States, has been justly called "the living voice of the Constitution." Under this Constitution, as construed by the Supreme Court, we have become one of the most progressive peoples of modern time. Our material prosperity has been unprecedented. And with our increasing strength there has steadily been growing through the length and breadth of our vast domain both the sentiment and the conviction, that we are one people, that we are a nation, with a general government for general purposes and local governments for local purposes. To use the language of the court itself: - "We are an indestructible Union of indestructible States." 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.