Category: Marbury V Madison

Introduction A few weeks before Thomas Jefferson was inaugurated as the 3rd President of the United States, the Federalist Congress came up with 16 new circuit judgeships and more judgeships (Organic Act) with which Adams went on to fill the Federalists in a bid to have control over his partys control of the judiciary and…

The purpose of the courts is to solve legal matters by using the law to interpret each case (Khatri, 2016). The Supreme Court otherwise referred to Court of Final Appeal, is the highest level of the Federal Court System and has a wide array of setting precedence and jurisdiction (Khatri, 2016). A common question about…

Undoubtedly the Supreme Court has considerable political power. This power has come about after the case Marbury v Madison, the landmark decision that helped define the boundary between the constitutionally separate executive and judicial branches of the American form of government. The job of a judge, in this case of the Supreme Court Judges, is…