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description: "If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall. — a quote by William Rehnquist."
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> # If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall.

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