We tend to think of George Washington as the Marble Man, whom all admired and none opposed—Marshall's sober history complicates this view.
Matthew J. Franck
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Mar 6, 2019
Unlike our latter-day advocates of judicial engagement, Marshall saw that the separation of powers embodied principled limits on the judge’s role.
Matthew J. Franck is associate director of the James Madison Program at Princeton University, director of the William E. and Carol G. Simon Center on Religion and the Constitution at the Witherspoon Institute, professor emeritus of political science at Radford University, and lecturer in politics at Princeton University.