For whom the bell tolls

John Marshall was the fourth Supreme Court Chief Justice and the one who is credited with making it the powerful arbiter of constitutional law that it is today. His father was a good friend of George Washington. John had a mutual dislike with his second cousin Thomas Jefferson and he was appointed to the office of Supreme Court Chief Justice in the last days of the Presidency of John Adams just before Thomas Jefferson took office. John was in office for 35 years and on July 8th 1835 the Liberty Bell cracked while tolling his death and it never rang again.

(Book – John Marshall – Jean Edward Smith)

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