Supreme Court Cases: Marbury V. James Madison

It goes back to the election of 1800, when Thomas Jefferson of democrat republicans beat the federalists of John Adams. One of the most historic U.S supreme court cases to begin to emerge and develop an a effect on U.S history today was the case of William Marbury, v. James Madison. Explaining the origins and background of the case, I will discuss the major constitutional issues it raised while outlining the major points of the courts decision and the significance of the decision. Including that John Adams was president in the late 1700’s, he was a member of the Federalist Party. Federalists were already worried that the inundation of French into the country could become a powerful voting block since Adams and other federalist were Pro-British. The alien and sedition Acts were passed by the federalist controlled congress to deal with such a problem. The
It was his job to the commsions to the new appointees. Many of them were delivered while some were not, including William Marbury’s. When the new President, Thomas Jefferson was sworn in, he told James Madison, who was the new Secretary of Sate, to not deliver the commissions to the other judge appointees. Marbury and many others brought a lawsuit to make Madison deliver the commissions. They then asked the Supreme Court, in its original juristdiction, to issue a writ of “Mandamus”, a court order directing Madison to carry out his duty to deliver the commissions. This leads us to the case of William Marbury, v. James Madison in front of the Supreme Court, with ex-Secretary of State John Marshall as Chief Justice.
Marbury v. Madison was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution. The decision helped define the boundary between the constitutionally separate executive and judicial branches of the American form of