Rehnquist/Marshall
If Supreme Court Justices John Marshall and William Rehnquist were to meet in the Supreme Court in the sky, they would have great debates over the role of the court and the structure of the state/federal system. Both Marshall and Rehnquist were Federalists, but with competing views of Federalist theory which was evident in their most famous decisions. For Marshall, those decisions were McCulloch v. Maryland, Gibbons v. Ogden, and Dartmouth v. Woodward. Rehnquist’s landmark decisions were Wallace v Jaffree, US v. Lopez, and US v. Morrison.
Marshall, a loyal Federalist, saw the Constitution as an instrument of national unity and federal power and the guarantee of the security of private property. He made undeniable, with Marbury v. Madison, the until that time uncertain right of the Supreme Court to review federal and state laws and decide them unconstitutional. He viewed the Constitution on the one hand as a precise document setting forth specific powers and on the other hand......
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