The Marbury V. Madison Case

Throughout my time as a Political Science major a constant topic in the conversations was that of judicial review. My professor’s automatically assume we know everything there is to know about judicial review. So when it comes to the case of Marbury V. Madison I knew the basics of the case but I did not know the reasons and all the facts. When I picked this case it was out of confusion behind the events that gave the Supreme Court its powers. Through examining the legal, environmental and personal perspective of the case we can get to the bottom of why they ruled way they did. The Marbury v. Madison case was the first of its kind because it was questioning who had the final say when it came to conflicts between the constitution and a ruling. When I was looking through which type of law the case dealt with, administrative law, which is classified as the scope of law that involves any or all interactions with the Federal Government is what it was called. The Marbury v. Madison case began with John Adams. The former president attempted to appoint William Marbury as a Justice of the Peace, but failed to complete the formal appointment before his presidency was terminated. He was trying to appoint sixteen to the bench. Article II, …show more content…
We had just gained our independence and we were learning how to be independent. The Federalist party was very big in government and the entire court was Federalist and they were a major political party in the early years of the U.S. favoring a strong centralized national government. The ruling showed unity between the branches because it was President Jefferson’s right not to appoint Marbury to the position but if they would have gone against the president that ruling would have stood for everything they were against. That ruling for Marbury would have made the Branches look unified and that is against everything federalist stand