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This Day in Legal History: “A Friend of the Constitution”
On July 15, 1819, Chief Justice John Marshall took the unusual step of anonymously defending one of the most consequential Supreme Court decisions in American history—McCulloch v. Maryland. Writing under the pseudonym A Friend of the Constitution, Marshall authored a series of essays published in the Philadelphia Union and the Alexandria Gazette, responding to public criticism of the Court’s expansive interpretation of federal power. The decision, issued earlier that year, had upheld Congress’s authority to establish a national bank…
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