John Marshall Essay

 Assignment

Write a four page essay in response to the prompt.
John Marshall believed the United States needed a strong national government. In your essay describe two specific events in John Marshall’s life and explain why those episodes convinced him that the United States needed a strong national government. In the second part of your essay identify four specific decisions of the Marshall Court, and explain how each case strengthened the national government?
Format Instructions:
Do not use any quotations, citations, or footnotes at all in the essay. Write the essay in your own words.
The John Marshall biography contains all the information you need to write the essay. You cannot use any other sources to write the paper.
Four pages is the maximum length of the paper. You will not receive credit for work beyond four pages.
Structure of the essay- I want the six paragraphs of your essay to appear in the following order
The first and second paragraphs of your essay should each cover an event from John Marshall’s life that motivated him to support a strong central government as opposed to strong state governments. The third, fourth, fifth, and sixth paragraphs of your essay should cover a court case that made the national government stronger relative to the state governments.
Hints on writing this assignment:
Each one of your paragraphs should include two parts, a detailed description of an event or court case, and clear analysis explaining why the event you described motivated John Marshall to support a stronger central government, or describing how the court case you chose made the national government stronger relative to the states.
You need to mention specific events and examples from the book.
You need to analyze and explain the importance of the examples and events you mention.
You need to organize your paper into effective paragraphs.
You need to click the “spell check” button in your word processor program to correct as many careless essays as possible.
You need to proof read and rewrite the first draft of your paper and correct any mistakes you find.
Do not use contractions in your essay. For example spell out can’t as cannot.
Do not use the first person in the essay. For example do not say “I believe” or “I think.”
Do not reference the author in your paper.
Do not put extra space between paragraphs. Format your word processor properly.
Attention:
The four cases cannot be the following cases:
Marbury v. Madison
McCulloch v. Maryland
Gibbons v. Ogden
Dartmouth v. Woodward