" John Marshall (17551835) was arguably the most important judicial figure in American history. As the fourth chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from 1801 to1835, he helped move the Court from the fringes of power to the epicenter of constitutional government. His great opinions in cases like Marbury v. Madison and McCulloch v. Maryland are still part of the working discourse of constitutional law in America. Dra ..."
The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr Law, Politics, and the Character Wars of the New Nation by R. KentNewmyer Published 2012 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-139-56094-8, ISBN: 1-139-56094-8
"right to be tried only on the formal charge in the indictment.87 Of all the
procedural rights championed by Marshall in the Burr trials (Bollman as well as
U.S. v. Burr), none was more important than the right of the accused to the writ of
habeas corpus. Not surprisingly it was Marshall's opinion in Bollman that Chief
Justice Taney quoted when, in the case of Ex parte Merryman, he challenged
Lincoln's temporary suspension of the wr ..."
The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr(1st Edition) Law, Politics, and the Character Wars of the New Nation (Cambridge Studies on the American Constitution) by R. KentNewmyer Paperback, 242 Pages, Published 2012 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-107-60661-6, ISBN: 1-107-60661-6