THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
THOMAS JEFFERSONS PRESIDENCY LOUISIANA PURCHASE LEWIS CLARK AND MORE
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“Judges are allowed to serve a term of office that will last as long as they remain in good behavior.”
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“Each branch of government created by the Constitution is endowed with their own specific powers.”
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“The court has the power to determine the constitutionality of laws enacted by Congress.”
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“The Representatives and Senators that make up Congress are given their power by the people who elected them."
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Detailed explanation-1: -John Marshall, chief justice of the Supreme Court in 1803, used the case of Marbury v. Madison to establish the Court’s power of judicial review whereby the Supreme Court can declare a law passed by Congress and signed by the president as unconstitutional and, therefore, null and void.
Detailed explanation-2: -Judicial Review The Court established this doctrine in the case of Marbury v. Madison (1803). In this case, the Court had to decide whether an Act of Congress or the Constitution was the supreme law of the land.
Detailed explanation-3: -Marbury v. Madison is important because it established the power of judicial review for the U.S. Supreme Court and lower federal courts with respect to the Constitution and eventually for parallel state courts with respect to state constitutions.
Detailed explanation-4: -With his decision in Marbury v. Madison, Chief Justice John Marshall established the principle of judicial review, an important addition to the system of “checks and balances” created to prevent any one branch of the Federal Government from becoming too powerful.
Detailed explanation-5: -The U.S. Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison (1803) established the principle of judicial review-the power of the federal courts to declare legislative and executive acts unconstitutional.