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“The future chief justice of the United States told the delegates that an independent federal judiciary was a necessary bulwark against an overreaching Congress. If Congress were to exceed its powers, said Marshall, it would be the duty of the judiciary to declare the action void. Marshall”
― James F. Simon, What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Stru

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