Term Papers on Great Chief Justice

Term Paper Title	Great Chief Justice
# of Words	510
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	2.04

Great Chief Justice

     In today’s time most lawyers are not thought of as great minds.  Instead they are thought of as cheats and trouble.  In 1755, in Virginia, John Marshall was born.  He was distantly related to Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, but they shared no similarities.  The main differences between these two men were their opposing political beliefs.  Thomas Jefferson believed in state sovereignty while John Marshall thought that there should be a strong centralized government.  Throughout their careers, these philosophies would put them on opposite sides.
     Marshall went through all of his schooling including college for a while until in 1780, when he was admitted to the bar as a lawyer.  Two years after, he was sent to Richmond as a member of the House of Delegates.  Here he made his home even though he still owned a farm in Fauquier County where he was born.  Marshall was a skillful lawyer with honest country manners.  Though his legal prowness and genial manner won him many friends in Richmond, he clearly allied himself with the political views of Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Washington and the Federalists policies they exposed.  Marshalls future looked good in politics in 1800 but the federalists were sweeped from power and replaced with democratic republicans.  But before Adams term was done, Marshall was appointed to Supreme Court Chief Justice.
     Now that Jefferson was in the White House and Marshall in the Supreme Court it was inevitable that the two branches of go...

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