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The decisions of the Marshall Court established the Supreme Court as a branch of government equal to Congress and the Presidency.
Greater power for the federal government
Thurgood Marshall was a justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. He was the first African- American ever to be appointed as a justice.
He was the Chief Justice for the U.S. Supreme Court.
As an associate justice on the United States Supreme Court, he served in the judicial branch.
One of John Marshall's accomplishments was to make the supreme court a co-branch of government. He did this when he was chief justice of the United States.
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John Marshall served in the Supreme Court as Chief Justice between 1801-1835. He helped lay foundation for constitutional law, and made Judicial branch an equal branch of government. He was the longest serving Chief justice in supreme court history.
Thurgood Marshall's careers were an attorney and A Supreme Court Justice .
John Marshall was a federalist who believed in a stronger federal government. As a Chief Justice, John Marshall, helped shape the supreme court by granting it, and the federal government, more power than previously thought. (Marbury v. Madison, McCulloch v. Maryland)
Early in Chief Justice Marshall's tenure on the Supreme Court, the majority of votes were unanimous; the other justices usually voted with Marshall, who then wrote the opinion of the court himself.Marshall's influence weakened in the waning days of his career, as more Democratic-Republicans were appointed to succeed Federalist justices.
First black Supreme court justice