Industrial Age · North America · Politics
1803
Marbury v. Madison
February 24, 1803
Chief Justice John Marshall, in a dry little case about a judicial commission never delivered, announced that the Supreme Court could strike down acts of Congress it judged unconstitutional. He had invented, nearly from nothing, the doctrine of judicial review. Federal judges had just been made permanent referees of American self-government.
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Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.