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A Century of Federal Judicature. pointed in 1830, and Wayne was serving his first term when Marshall died. Marshall's principal associates in length of service were, therefore, Washington, Johnson, Livingston, Todd, Story, Duvall and Thompson.

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and throughout his long service he contrib uted in no small measure to their supremacy. He was one of the first justices to publish re ports of his decisions in his circuit, and this collection probably illustrates better than the

BUSHROD WASHINGTON.

Among the earlier associates, Washington (1798-1829) was easily chief. Although a man of active intellect, and tenacious of his individual opinions, he was thoroughly in ac cord with the constitutional views of his chief,

Supreme Court reports the quality, variety and extent of his learning. Johnson (1804-34), on the other hand, was, until the accession of Baldwin, the principal critic of the constitutional doctrines of the