As the fourth chief justice of the United States, John Marshall (1755-1835) was the principal architect in consolidating and defining the powers of the Supreme Court. Perhaps more than any other man he set the prevailing tone of American constitutional...

Marshall, John Born September 24, 1755 (Germantown, Virginia) Died July 6, 1835 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court John Marshall grew up as a Virginia gentleman who was accepted into the most famous group of national...

For other persons named John Marshall, see John Marshall (disambiguation). John Marshall (September 24, 1755 – July 6, 1835) was an American statesman and jurist who shaped American constitutional law and made the Supreme Court a center of power....

Thurgood Marshall's son is first Black to head U.S. Marshals Service SITTING in an office surrounded by snapshots of people and moments in his life, John Marshall recalls the day--February 1, 2000--he was formally sworn-in as the first Black director of the...

INTRODUCTION Near the end of John Ford's masterpiece The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, (1) a newspaper reporter observes, "when the legend becomes fact, print the legend." (2) More than a few popular legends about John Marshall have been printed as fact...

Attempt a 14,000-foot peak without any technical or physical preparation, you probably won't get very far.Try mountain bike racing at altitude without building stamina or learning proper pedaling technique, you'll peter out halfway up the mountain.Take a crack at rock climbing with no prior training,...

My first reaction after President George W. Bush nominated White House counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court was: Ohmigod. My second was: Why do we care so much? Begin with ohmigod. I don’t want to be here, and I resent Mr. Bush for putting...