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Chief Justice John Marshall

Our greatest Chief Justice defined the Constitution and ensured that the rule of law prevailed at a time of Presidential overreach and bitter political factionalism.

Neither the Constitution nor the laws but John Marshall made the Court Supreme

GIBBONS v. OGDEN

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