THE 1970S 1969 1979
SUPREME COURT CASE ROE V WADE
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the Secretary of State under President Jefferson
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the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the early 1800s
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one of John Adams’ “Midnight Judges” that he appointed at the very end of his term
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Just weeks before Thomas Jefferson was to begin his presidency in 1801, incumbent John Adams appointed John Marshall as the young nation’s fourth chief justice.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1801, outgoing President John Adams had issued William Marbury a commission as justice of the peace-but the new Secretary of State, James Madison, refused to deliver it. Marbury then sued to obtain it.
Detailed explanation-3: -History has given us the image of a petulant President John Adams staying up to all hours of the night in his last days in office in March 1801, commissioning Federalist party members as judges throughout the land.
Detailed explanation-4: -’Midnight Judges’ was the term coined by the Democrat-Republicans for the 58 judges appointed to the Federal Circuit courts and the newly-created D.C. courts by President Adams on the eve of his last day in office.