Based on the supreme court’s ruling in gibbons v. ogden, 1824, it would be reasonable to assume that chief justice john marshall favored

A liberal interpretation of the constitution. 

The native americans, spanish, french and americans all name places in our state. the word “arkansas” came from the quapaw indians, by way of early french explorers. at the time of the early french exploration, a tribe of indians, the quapaws, lived west of the mississippi and north of the arkansas river.