marbury v madison
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- Slide: 1
- Chief Justice John Marshall
- The Court has the power to review laws for constitutionality
- Marshall is speaking to the court, holding a legal document in hand, announcing that the Supreme Court has the power of judicial review.
- The Court cannot enforce the commission, but it holds the power to review laws
- Marshall at the bench, reading his ruling with the other justices listening. He’s explaining that Marbury is entitled to his commission but the Court can't enforce it
- Slide: 2
- william Marbury
- James Madison
- I will not deliver it
- I am entitled to this commission
- William Marbury, is holding papers, stands outside James Madison’s office. Madison, sitting at a desk, refuses to hand over the commission.
- judicial review was born courts can now declare laws unconstitutional
- a judge, looking at a document declaring this law unconstitutional
- Slide: 3
- Thomas Jefferson
- Do not deliver the commission, it’s part of the old administration
- President Thomas Jefferson stands at a desk, instructing James Madison, who holds the commission, to withhold it from Marbury
- Marbury v. Madison established the precedent of judicial review, giving the Supreme Court the authority to declare laws unconstitutional. President Jefferson exercised his executive power by instructing , James Madison, to withhold William Marbury’s judicial commission, a decision that set off the legal conflict. The Court ruled that Marbury had a right to the commission, but it could not force the president to deliver it, asserting the judiciary's power to review laws while also acknowledging the limits of its authority in matters of executive action.
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