The Eleventh Draft

The Beauty in Dissent

Jordan Watland
Jun 28, 2015
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In 1822, Thomas Jefferson had had enough. The US Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Marshall had decided a number of landmark cases in the previous few years without a breath of dissent, without …

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