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Chief Justice John Marshall

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Quotes by Chief Justice John Marshall

"The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. It will certainly cease to deserve this high appellation, if the laws furnish no remedy for the violation of a vested legal right."

- Chief Justice John Marshall

Belief

"“An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.”"

- Chief Justice John Marshall

Responsibility