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Outside the Supreme Court building stands a bronze Marshall cast in Rome nearly 140 years ago, now weathered into the landscape where constitutional history literally took shape. Lawyers and history students pass it constantly; tourists find a quiet moment to reckon with the man who made the Court matter.
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