Marbury v. Madison

Equal Justice Under Law

Marbury v. Madison (1st in a 4 part series).

Dramatizations of historic decisions from the courtroom of America's great Chief Justice, John Marshall.

Who determines what the Constitution means—what is and is not constitutional?

In this 1803 case the Supreme Court established its responsibility to review the constitutionality of acts of Congress. President John Adams appointed Federalist William Marbury as justice of the peace, but failed to deliver Marbury's official commission before President Jefferson and the Democratic-Republicans took over the administration. Marbury asked the Supreme Court to order Jefferson's Secretary of State, James Madison, to deliver the commission. Marbury's demand precipitated a confrontation between Chief Justice Marshall and President Thomas Jefferson. The Supreme Court held that it did not have jurisdiction and declared that the law permitting the Court to hear the case was unconstitutional.

Purchase of the tape of this video was made possible through a contribution by Joseph Kulhavy.

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Education

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• uscourts.gov
• public.resource.org

[b6721]

"Is it madness Mr. President?"

"Madness? THIS IS THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH!"

[Julian13084]

this was great ! Im going to pass Con Law now!!!

[TheSolja504]

thumbs up for Mr. Devries!!

[XxlovelesslostxX]

this video might be a good video, by my government class is doing a video guide for it and it is sooooooooooooooooooooooooo boreing. oh and 2nd from Mr. h's 2nd period government class

[RightTurn45]

1st from Mr. H's 2nd period Government class

[boydferd]

hi garret

[boydferd]

Your moms Maddness

[shinichiBLUE]

Marshall is pretty awesome lol

[tommyhendo]

Thanks for posting. My high school teacher showed us this 20 years ago and I've been trying to find it for my students

[msm0993]

I'll be the first of Mr. Devries' 5th period class to leave a comment.

[matthewrf54]

Marshall = Awesome

[TarasBulyba23]

Who had to watch this for DCD