This paper will evaluate the impact of John Marshall’s jurisprudence on the shaping of the American political system, provide critiques of his jurisprudence from political contemporaries, and finally provide an opinion as to the impact his jurisprudence has contributions to American politics and political thought.
Before John Marshall became the fourth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and longest tenured chief justice in American history, John Marshall grew up in Virginia as the oldest of fifteen siblings. During his childhood he was homeschooled by his father and read William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England, which is often credited as the main source of Marshall’s interest and motivation to enter