 John Marshall is one of those great, great instances of cronyism because a lot of people you learn about John Marshall, I took APU as history when I was in high school. I've read a lot of history books. I've read a lot of stuff on John Marshall and his constitutional opinions. And you got all these people. It's the great man of the court. The great John Marshall. He's the big government advocate. What? None of the, you don't learn this at all. And I just find this simply astonishing. Borderline scandalous is two things. One, that John Marshall and his brother James were enormous land speculators, right? So you're dealing with someone who's like, who has dealt with immense amount of land speculation, including in Virginia, and that these guys are also linked with, who was at the time in the 1790s, one of the wealthiest richest men in America, Robert Morris, James Marshall, John Marshall's brother, had married the daughter of Robert Morris and they had engaged in various speculation schemes together. So when you read this, you're like, whoa, whoa, wait a second. Why was I not informed of this at all? Like this might influence some people's opinions of this man. And John Marshall was someone who was very concerned about what would happen in the Yau Zoo. What would happen with the Yau Zoo claimants? Because John Marshall was undergoing, he was suffering a similar experience in Virginia. There was a large land grant in Virginia that now the Virginia legislature had wanted to rescind. The Marshalls were involved in it. They didn't want that to happen. So the case of Fletcher v. Peck, all right, which is a Supreme Court case. This is John Marshall recalling what we spoke about in an earlier podcast regarding judicial review used to protect federalist cronyism. John Marshall is using judicial review to overturn a state law, Georgia, basically rescinding the Yau Zoo land grants and saying, nope, can't do that. You gotta provide compensation for them. And okay, so why do you want to do that? Obviously, John Marshall was a big government person ideologically. He wanted to find some defense of this using the contract clause and all of that. But he also clearly wanted to protect his own land speculation. So he wanted to set a precedent for this. And you saw this in later Supreme Court cases where basically the Supreme Court upheld the validity of the Marshalls titles to land in Virginia. Now, to be fair, Marshall had excused himself from these various court cases. But Joseph's story, who was also on the Supreme Court, he was someone who had also worked for land speculators. He had also worked for the Yau Zoo land speculators. He's basically doing Marshall's dirty work on the Supreme Court. So it's all fascinating story. It's similar to the George Washington, moving the capital to benefit himself. This is just a very simple, tight explanation of just personal cronyism. And what makes it all the more remarkable is this is a chief justice. This is supposed to be a person who's above all this. He's a great legal analyst. He's kind of making deals basically to line his own pockets. And you're going, well, it's good to know nothing's changed in the United States history.