He proposed the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850, which was to send back runaway slaves from which who escaped from the southern states to the north. As this was a add onto the older laws this law punished officials who did not capture runaway slaves and bring them back to the southern states. In 1855 was found unconstitutional and was Nullified
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I would know about John Marshall. He was a federalist supreme court chief justice. He gave more power to the government by taking a loose construction of the Constitution. So basically he said, "If it doesnt say we (Fed Gov't) cant do it, then we can)".
<span>Know about these Court cases </span>
<span>Gibbons V. Ogden </span>
<span>McCullough V. Maryland </span>
<span>Fletcher V. Peck </span>
<span>Cohens V. Virginia </span>
<span>Barron V. Baltimore- this one is hard to find, so basically it just said that because the Bill of Rights was a Federal decision, it didnt apply to the states. </span>
<span>The rest are really easy to find out about, and you could type in John Marshall and it would probably give you all of these. </span>
<span>http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/served/marshall.html </span>
<span>http://www.lawnix.com/cases/gibbons-ogden.html- heres gibbons/ogden</span>