JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
JACKSONIAN AMERICA
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the earliest and most powerful leader in the movement to end slavery
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the first Vice President to become President after a presidential assassination
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the official who convinced Thomas Jefferson to purchase the Louisiana Territory
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the Supreme Court Chief justice who helped expand the power of the national government
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Detailed explanation-1: -He asserted the judiciary’s authority to expound the Constitution as paramount law and to hold the other branches accountable to that law. Second, Marshall interpreted the Constitution in ways that significantly enhanced the powers of the federal government.
Detailed explanation-2: -Judicial review made the Court a real check and balance to the other two branches. It helped guarantee our freedoms. John Marshall made sure those rights would be protected-even from Congress and the president.
Detailed explanation-3: -The first of his great cases in more than 30 years of service was Marbury v. Madison (1803), which established the Supreme Court’s right to expound constitutional law and exercise judicial review by declaring laws unconstitutional.