Chief Justice John Marshall in 1803 faced ... judgeship, Marbury’s lawyer brought a writ of mandamus in the U.S. Supreme Court to compel Jefferson’s Secretary of State James Madison to deliver ...

Happy Birthday Marbury v. Madison. On Feb. 24, 1803, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down the most important judicial decision in our nation’s history, ruling that it is the province of the courts ...

That statement risks a constitutional crisis because it challenges a bedrock principle of separation of powers: the holding of 1803's Marbury v. Madison that "it is emphatically the province and ...

In 1803, Chief Justice John Marshall first expressed ... department to say what the law is,” Marshall wrote in Marbury v. Madison. The notion goes back even further, to England, when the courts ...