Keywords
legal history, constitutional law, judicial power, US Supreme Court, Necessary and Proper Clause
Abstract
David S. Schwartz’s The Spirit of the Constitution: John Marshall and the 200-Year Odyssey of McCulloch v. Maryland, is a truly excellent book, for which I was happy to contribute the following blurb appearing on the back jacket: "David Schwartz has written an indispensable study of thesingle most important Supreme Court case in the canon. As such, he delineates not only the meaning and importance of the case in 1819, but also the use made of it over the next two centuries as it became a central myth and symbol of the very meaning of American constitutionalism.”
Recommended Citation
Sanford Levinson,
Does Importance Equal Greatness? Reflections on John Marshall and McCulloch v. Maryland,
73 Ark. L. Rev.
79
(2020).
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uark.edu/alr/vol73/iss1/5
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