John Marshall: Constitution

John Marshall was fourth Chief Justice of the United States. Explore interesting quotes on constitution.

John Marshall: 82 quotes3 likes

“We must never forget that it is a constitution we are expounding.”

17 U.S. (4 Wheaton) 316, 407
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)

“As men, whose intentions require no concealment, generally employ the words which most directly and aptly express the ideas they intend to convey, the enlightened patriots who framed our constitution, and the people who adopted it, must be understood to have employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended what they have said.”

22 U.S. (9 Wheaton) 1, 188
Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)