Marbury v. Madison

(noun)

A landmark U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court established the exercise of judicial review under Article III of the Constitution.

Related Terms

  • John Marshall
  • federalist
  • Judicial Review
  • McCulloch v. Maryland

(noun)

Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution.

Related Terms

  • John Marshall
  • federalist
  • Judicial Review
  • McCulloch v. Maryland

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  • Marbury v. Madison

    • Marbury v.
    • Madison (1803), was a landmark U.S.
    • This inscription, from the decision in Marbury v.
    • Describe the shape of the boundary that Marbury v.
    • Madison created between the executive and judicial branches of government
  • Judicial Review and Marbury v. Madison

    • Marbury v.
    • Marbury v.
    • In deciding the case of Marbury v.
    • Many legal scholars argue that the power of judicial review in the United States predated Marbury v.
    • Describe the facts of Marbury v.
  • The Last Days of the Federal Presidency: The Midnight Judges

    • This appointment of the so-called "midnight judges" to the Supreme Court angered Democratic-Republicans, and Jefferson refused to allow the midnight judges (including William Marbury) to take office .
    • Marbury sued and demanded that the Supreme Court issue a writ of mandamus (a power given by the Judiciary Act of 1789) that would compel Jefferson to accept these appointments.
    • In Marbury v.
    • Madison, Justice Marshall defined the Court's judicial power as the authority to judge the actions of the other two federal branches of government—claiming that judicial review was a logical and implicit principle established in the Constitution.
    • William Marbury (1762–1835) was one of the "midnight judges" appointed by United States President John Adams the day before he left office.
  • The Expansion of the Federal Government

    • Maryland and Gibbons v.
    • Marbury v.
    • Madison (1803) was a landmark U.S.
    • McCulloch v.
    • Gibbons v.
  • The Transformation of Law

    • In 1803, the Marshall Court struck down an act of Congress in Marbury v.
    • Madison, establishing the Court as a center of power that could overrule the Congress, the President, the states, and all lower courts.
    • In the same year, Dartmouth College v.
    • Another important case over which Marshall presided was Gibbons v.
    • The text of the McCulloch v.
  • The Division and Separation of Power

    • The Supreme Court later established a precedent for judicial review in Marbury v.
    • Madison.
  • The Branches of Government

    • The Supreme Court later established a precedent for judicial review in the case of Marbury v.
    • Madison.
  • The Marshall Court

    • The Marshall Court struck down an act of Congress in only one case (Marbury v.
    • Madison in 1803), but that one instance established the Court as a center of power that could overrule the Congress, the president, the states, and all lower courts if that was what a fair reading of the Constitution required.
  • Hamilton's Economic Policy

    • Thomas Jefferson (then the Secretary of State) and James Madison vigorously opposed Hamilton's proposals.
    • To ground their claims, Jefferson and Madison also argued that the plan passed beyond the scope of federal powers as outlined in the Constitution.
    • Jefferson and Madison, leading the opposition, argued that taking the centralization of power away from local banks was dangerous to a sound monetary system and unfairly designed to benefit northern business interests at the expense of southern agricultural development.
    • Later in the Supreme Court case of McCullough v.
    • Madison, this interpretation was described as the "doctrine of implied powers" left ambiguous in the Constitution.
  • The Legal Ramifications for Slavery

    • By prohibiting changes to regulation of the slave trade for two decades, Article V effectively protected the trade until 1808, giving the States then existing 20 years to resolve this issue.
    • In a section negotiated by James Madison of Virginia, Section 2 of Article I designated "other persons" (slaves) to be added to the total of the state's free population, at the rate of three-fifths of their total number, to establish the state's official population for the purposes of apportionment of Congressional representation and federal taxation.
    • James Madison proposed the Three-Fifths Compromise, which was eventually adopted as a Constitutional provision.
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