| Movie Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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John Marshall: Citizen, Statesman, Jurist. Dir. by Dan Schreve. Prod. by Brian Peterson. MotionMasters, 2004. 57 mins. (Films for the Humanities and Sciences, P.O. Box 2053, Princeton, NJ 08543-2053; 800-257-5126; custserv@filmsmediagroup.com; http://www.films.com/)

Biographies of America's Founding Fathers often apotheosize their subjects, and this recent tribute to John Marshall is no different. Its redeeming quality lies in its use of recent scholarship, discarding an older portrait of Marshall as a champion of judicial activism and replacing it with a portrayal of Marshall as a nationalist champion of the Constitution. Relying on the impressive work of historians such as Jean Edward Smith, R. Kent Newmeyer, and Charles Hobson, this new documentary strongly puts its admiration for the nation's fourth chief justice in the context of Marshall's commitment to make the Supreme Court as respectable in power as the other branches of government.

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