this is a john marshall bushrod washington collaboration. okay. first, you know what makes the marshall distinctive? one thing is that they all lived together in a boardinghouse. when the court was in session they all eight together drank together discussed the cases over dinner together. right. and a lot of people believe that helps to explain how they achieved a high degree of consent to this and unanimity in decisions it was just and convivial and that lent itself to ironing out disagreements. okay. who was in charge of these arrangements? bushrod washington now we know that because, as i mentioned at the beginning of the talk when washington, d.c. damaged during the war, marshall's first letter is to asking bush right where, are we going to stay? you know, like you're you got to figure this out. we also have many letters from washington where he his various attempts to negotiate sort of arrangements at this boardinghouse, that boardinghouse. okay. now, tellingly, when bush rod washington dies, that arrangement ends. so the very next term of th