Show JOHN MARSHALL 1 ESTI AY WAS WI CELEBRATE C in m d of cities and aud towns of o the I ud States Stales Sta tes the Ue centennial anniversary Teral of or John Joe Marshall s elevation to 10 the tue chief Though few men mea nie hi ve left a deeper impre on OR the nations history the tb general public ha Ita has bat but little idea Wea of ot the scope co and ad last ins juz i erred effect t his influence lu ueDe In t s 5 he was an aLn opponent of or Jefferson and an upholder ui r of tit Washing Washington ton and kariton As a judge he hId held b ld aa It even COUrSe coarse e between the extreme democratic ie Ic tendencies of f e Jefferson J LId aid the aristocratic leanings of Hamilton At A t the time tinie he became head of or the th u ne court tile the th American Am scheme of O nt was wal still in an experimental stage It was being bitterly bitt assailed on n a all sides aides es Many of the hc larger Jarger states tate t f t felt that they the had bad made too great ft ftC at i C emissions lons of power ver to the federal government go H vernm nt Such Kh SUt h was the to In these hee commonwealths that the failure of ot the federal ed rat plan pan would ou not have Mye been ben unwelcome With these the e conditions confronting him ana anu with DO no precedents to 60 u aid CId ai b him Joh John Marshall in hi decisions no o inu mined and 00 so clearly honestly and tog Iou interpreted the tho constitution con that thi t in less ieee than a century It has h become iho 1 1 palladium of o the life and liberty of 0 r a nation second to none under u the tile sun iun In constitutional interpretation he laid down this thin rule at the lIf hf his hi judicIal career carer car er and adhered ad to it at through the whole thirtyfour four Neither ither a strict nor a liberal interpretation Int of the constitution but the plain meaning Jn of nf r the words should govern In judi Ul analysis ald ad In tn clear eler keen ke en insight that diet saw ew w to the very bottom of or the th of right and ana justice ju Marshall fa is generally acknowledged by W students of legal lore U Li have been Wit hout bout a peer leer For thirtyfour yean yeara yea Wr Wring r rI I ing the nations most moat critical period as head ht ad of the supreme e bench he tae mad mM har Itar the harmonious relations between the state and federal government guiding the government from the united federation of ot catty days ays to o the compact and powerful nation of todar toda Nor does this thia comprise all aU of or Marshall service to lila biB country Jie Ite was WS In lit Inthe Inthe the field with Washington during the hardest years of the war ar He Ue bottled battled 4 with ith 1 t ii and triumphed over Patrick Henry Hen ry 17 IB Ia Ithe the convention C Rio His sure of the X Y T Z conspiracy was wa a strong stroe factor in hi Keeping America merl from T r ing Into an all entangling alliance with France Fronce And d to these e may be he added life I fe of Washington that th Is to unsurpassed in historical AH AM in ta all 11 hf 11 A is q one of the moot moat imposing figures in I a American history tOl and aad a ma um maa whose whom C every American may be proud to honor |