The 2005 Chief Justice John Marshall silver dollar was certainly appropriate, but it was not likely to be terribly popular. Americans have enough trouble trying to remember who the current Chief Justice of the United States is, much less the fourth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
There is no doubt that Justice Marshall, who was sworn in on Feb. 4, 1801, and served for 34 years, had an enormous impact both on the Supreme Court and on the way American judges and legal scholars would view the law right up to the present day...
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