'Without Precedent' brings shrewd legal perspective to the career of Supreme Court justice John Marshall
Feb 22, 2018
3 minutes
Asked who the most influential Founding Father was, many younger Americans, still in the flush of "Hamilton"-mania, might nominate their new hero, rap lyrics and all. An older generation might stick with the steady stand-by, George Washington. A certain brainy subset – its standard-bearers being the unlikely duo of John F. Kennedy and Christopher Hitchens – would put forward Thomas Jefferson.
And yet for two centuries, American historians and constitutional scholars have.
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