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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 200. Chapters: John Marshall, Mickie James, Elliott Yamin, Edgar Allan Poe, Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, Eric Cantor, John W. Stevenson, Tom Wolfe, George Washington Dixon, Virgil Goode, George Pickett, Jason Mraz, Shirley MacLaine, Warren Beatty, Varina Davis, John Randolph of Roanoke, Jim Gilmore, James Branch Cabell, Randy Blythe, Johnny Oates, Creigh Deeds, Patricia Cornwell, Wes Borland, Constance Cary Harrison, Albert Ritchie, George L. Street III, Charles M. Robinson, Lonnie Liston Smith, Aimee Mann, Slash Coleman, Samuel Wilbert Tucker, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., Leslie Bibb, H. Vinson Synan, Linwood Pendleton, Earl Hebner, Simon Diamond, Audra the Rapper, Douglas Southall Freeman, Harold Roe Bartle, Penn Badgley, Ellen Glasgow, Bill Robinson, Robert William Hughes, Roy King, Alvin Duke Chandler, Abram Lincoln Harris, Tracy Thorne-Begland, Michael Hudson (reporter), Amina Wadud, Moncure Robinson, Junie Donlavey, Oliver Hill, John W. Snow, Wyndham Robertson, Tom Robbins, Briley Brothers, James Joseph Dresnok, Moses Jacob Ezekiel, Mike Henry (voice actor), Jeff MacNelly, Perry Moore, Rick Wagoner, Dub Taylor, Richard Kelly (director), Dorothy Height, Vince Gilligan, Robbin Thompson, Charles L. Melson, William N. Pendleton, Olive Borden, David Baldacci, Andrew Jackson Montague, Joey Baron, Tommy Edwards, John J. Keane (bishop), Dean King. Excerpt: John Marshall (September 24, 1755 - July 6, 1835) was the fourth Chief Justice of the United States (1801-1835) whose court opinions helped lay the basis for American constitutional law and made the Supreme Court of the United States a coequal branch of government along with the legislative and executive branches. Previously, Marshall had been a leader of the Federalist Party in Virginia and served in the United States House of Representatives from 1799 to 1800. He was Secretary of State under President John Adams from 1800 to 1801. The longest-serving Chief Justice and the fourth longest-serving justice in US Supreme Court history, Marshall dominated the Court for over three decades and played a significant role in the development of the American legal system. Most notably, he reinforced the principle that federal courts are obligated to exercise judicial review, by disregarding purported laws if they violate the Constitution. Thus, Marshall cemented the position of the American judiciary as an independent and influential branch of government. Furthermore, Marshall's court made several important decisions relating to federalism, affecting the balance of power between the federal government and the states during the early years of the republic. In particular, he repeatedly confirmed the supremacy of federal law over state law, and supported an expansive reading of the enumerated powers. Some of his decisions were unpopular. Nevertheless, Marshall built up the third branch of the federal government, and augmented federal power in the name of the Constitution, and the rule of law. Marshall, along with Daniel Webster (who argued some of the cases), was the leading Federalist of the day, pursuing Federalist Party approaches to build a stronger federal government over the opposition of the Jeffersonian Republicans, who wanted stronger state governments. John Marshall was born in a log cabin close to Germantown, a rural community on the Virginia frontier, in what is now F
