John Marshall learned politics through his family's library and their participation in local and state governments. ... John Marshall was a very successful man in politics and law; he molded the development of the Constitution. ... The tribe was out of boundaries, resulting in it to be illegal. Within the American Political system, the Marshall decisions defined a place for Indian tribes. ...

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An exert from January/February 2004 issue of Foreign Affairs comments on the current situation, "The Bush administration has literalized its "war" on terrorism, dissolving the legal boundaries between what a government can do in peacetime and what's allowed in war. ... A military officer told Time magazine that the administration was waiting for "a politically propitious time to release them". I guess everything is just about politics; that is our sacrifice of our justice system, for politics. ... All of this for the purpose of what, Politics? ...

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