...Justice Marshall as a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention in 1830 used these words: "I have always thought, from my earliest youth till...the greatest scourge an angry Heaven ever inflicted on an ungrateful and a sinning people was an ignorant, a corrupt, or a dependent judiciary. ' ' When...

...expressed while still at the Bar in Congress, a truth the whole profession of the law approves: "1 have always thought from my earliest youth till now, that the greatest scourge yn angry Heaven ever inflicted upon an ungrateful and a sinning people, was an ignorant, a corrupt,...

...... If they may be removed at pleasure, will any lawyer of distinction come upon your bench? No, sir. I have always thought, from my earliest youth till now, that the greatest scourge an angry heaven could ever inflict upon an ungrateful and sinning people, was an ignorant, a corrupt, or a dependent...

...... If they may be removed at pleasure, will any lawyer of distinction come upon your bench? No, sir. I have always thought, from my earliest youth till now, that the greatest scourge an angry heaven could ever inflict upon an ungrateful and sinning people, was an ignorant, a corrupt, or a dependent...

...important that he should be rendered perfectly and completely independent, with nothing to influence or control him but God and his conscience? ... I have...greatest scourge an angry Heaven ever inflicted upon an ungrateful and sinning people was an ignorant, a corrupt, or a dependent judiciary." More recently...

...on his property, his reputation, his life, his all. Is it not to the last degree important that he should be rendered perfectly and completely independent,...now that the greatest scourge an angry Heaven ever indicted upon an ungrateful and sinning people was an ignorant, a corrupt, or a dependent judiciary.'...

...important that he should be rendered perfectly and completely independent, with nothing to influence or control him but God and his conscience? ... I have...greatest scourge an angry Heaven ever inflicted upon an ungrateful and sinning people was an ignorant, a corrupt, or a dependent judiciary." More recently...

...Rather will her position be that of John Marshall in the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829 : "I have always thought from my earliest youth till now that the greatest scourage an angry Heaven ever inflicted upon an ungrateful and sinning people was an ignorant, a corrupt...

...important, that he should be rendered perfectly and completely independent, with nothing to influence or control him but God and his conscience? ... I have...greatest scourge an angry Heaven ever inflicted upon an ungrateful and a sinning people, was an ignorant, a corrupt, or a dependent Judiciary." In short, that...

...important, that he should be rendered perfectly and completely independent, with nothing to influence or control him but 'God and his conscience? ... I have...greatest scourge an angry Heaven ever inflicted upon an ungrateful and a sinning people, was an ignorant, a corrupt, or ft dependent Judiciary." In short,...