Daniel Webster
Between 1817 and 1823 he won several famous constitutional cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, notably the Dartmouth College case (1819), which established the precedent that no legislature has the right to impair the obligations imposed by a contract, and McCullock v. Maryland (1819), which denied the right of the states to tax an institution established by the federal government. Thereafter Webster was generally regarded as one of the leading lawyers of the country.
In the controversy over the renewal of the charter of the United States Bank, Webster advocated renewal and opposed the financial policy of President Andrew Jackson in general. ( see Webster speech) Many of the principles of sound finance developed in his speeches at this time were later incorporated in the Federal Reserve System.