September 18, 2021 - "All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void." Marbury vs.

Marbury v. Madison: Congress does not have the power to pass laws that override the Constitution, such as by expanding the scope of the Supreme Court’s original jurisdiction.

June 16, 2022 - The constitutional avoidance doctrine requires federal courts to resolve cases on statutory or other grounds before they consider constitutional issues.

3 weeks ago - Marbury v. Madison, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court first declared an act of Congress unconstitutional and thus established the doctrine of judicial review. The court’s opinion, written by Chief Justice John Marshall, is considered one of the foundations of U.S. constitutional law.

An annotation about Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution of the United States.

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September 15, 2022 - EnlargeDownload Link Citation: Show-cause order served on James Madison, Secretary of State, 1802; Records of the Supreme Court of the United States; Record Group 267; National Archives. (The document shows damage from the 1898 fire in the Capitol Building.) View Transcript The decision in ...

Marshall also asserted that the courts had the responsibility to understand and articulate what the Constitution means: “It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.” The decision concluded “a law repugnant to the Constitution is void, and ...

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March 24, 2023 - Why do federal judges decide what is, and is not, constitutional? It goes back to 1803, when Marbury v. Madison set up judicial review.

July 20, 2024 - Thus, the particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written Constitutions, that a law repugnant to the Constitution is void, and that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument.

Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void.

The jurisdiction of the United States Supreme Court was defined in various provisions of the Constitution. In 1789, Congress enacted a Judiciary Act which appeared to give the Court a jurisdiction that the Constitution did not permit it to have. The question which was addressed by the Court ...

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Answer (1 of 7): The way to find out that a law is “repugnant to the constitution” is to disobey it and get arrested or sued and work your way through the state courts if it is a state law. Once you have completed the proceedings in the state trial court, intermediate appellate Court and ...

February 21, 2013 - Editor, The Feb. 18, “Thumbs up, thumbs down” piece, the final comment, being a “thumbs down,” said the attempt by the Utah Legislature to pass a bill that would put the state of Utah law above any federal law on firearms is not only “silly” but “unconstitutional.” The authors ...

May 17, 2023 - The Supreme Court held that Ohio's tax on the Bank was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court stated: "[T]he act of the State of Ohio ... is repugnant to a law of the United States, made in pursuance of the Constitution, and therefore void." The Supreme Court thus rejected Ohio's attempt to nullify ...

March 28, 2018 - 35 subscribers in the originalism community. **o·rig·i·nal·ism** ( əˈrijinlizm/ ) noun the principle or belief that the original intent of an author…