“This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary…
The United states constitution is meant to serve as guide lane for all states for all states where the document is meant only to provide a basic structure to the government, and all decisions on meaning are to be interpreted by the Judiciary branch. As said by "J. Harvie Wilkinson III" "Americans…
When Chief Justice Marshall first established the important principle of judicial review in Marbury v. Madison, his goal was to give the judicial branch a safeguard by expanding the Court’s power and legitimizing the weakest branch of government. As Hamilton pointed out in Federalist 78, the judicial branch “will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution” because it “has no influence over the either the sword or the purse, no direction of either the strength or the wealth of society, and can take no action whatsoever.” He says the Court does not have “FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment, and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm for the efficacy of its judgments” (Fed. 78). The Court has the authority to say whether a law is constitutional, and Marshall gives himself that final authority without addressing enforcement, because the power to enforce belongs to the executive. The Court simply writes the opinion.…
Should the Supreme Court’s power of judicial review be strictly limited by a constitutional amendment?…
In a the year of 1803 a watershed case, Marbury v. Madison, John Marshal Chief Justice's opinion founded the Supreme Court's power to declare acts of United States Congress, and by significance acts of the president, unconstitutional if they surpassed the authorities allowed by the Establishment or Constitution. But most significant thing was that the Court became the judge of the Constitution, the final authority on what the document meant. Intrinsically, the Supreme Court became as a matter of fact also as in theory an equal partner in authorities, and it has acted that role always later on (Erskine P.88-109).…
Most commonly refereed to as the Supremacy clause, Article VI Section II of the constitution established that three specific areas of legislation will take president over any other. The Constitution, Federal Statues, and Treaties are all specifically defined as the “Supreme Law of the Land.” This can be interpreted in a way such that the supremacy clause grants the laws made by the federal government priority over any state acts in the face of a conflict with the national law. In this respect, the Supremacy Clause follows the lead of Article XIII of the Articles of Confederation, which provided that “[e]very state shall abide by the determinations of the united states in congress assembled, on all questions which by this confederation are submitted…
views as to whether or not Judicial review, and the Supreme Court as a whole,…
Chief Justice John Marshall was put in an interesting situation, as he was now responsible for overseeing Marbury’s petition to the court regarding those same commissions. Chief Justice Marshall decided that Marbury did have the right to the writ for which he had petitioned and that the laws of the United States allowed the courts to grant Marbury this writ. Marshall however ordered that the writ could not be granted because Section 13 of the Judiciary Act of 1789 which granted the court the power to order such a writ was unconstitutional. Chief Justice Marshall exhibited how Congress had overstepped its authority in Section 13 of the Judiciary Act of 1789, and used the opportunity to declare the Supreme Court’s responsibility to uphold the constitution.…
* Identify six key characteristics of the U.S. Constitution. 1. Constitutions are a higher form of law that speak with a political authority that no ordinary law or other government action can ever match.…
Transformed beyond recognition from the vision of the Founding Fathers’. Discuss this view of the modern US constitution.…
With a great deal of debate the design of the United States along with the lay out by the founders of the country who took their roll in laying down the “rules” of the United States of America very seriously. The Articles of Confederation, the Bill of Rights, and the US Constitution lay the floor work of a layer of protection afforded to all United States Citizens. Each of the doctrines provides a step towards the written words that have granted many men and women protection from persecution as well as freedoms not received in other parts of the world. The last piece of the three historical documents, the US Constitution is comprised of a set of amendments, which have been written to protect several different rights that as a citizen are protected from false persecution. These constitutional amendments play a large roll, in the manner in which aspects of court procedure handled in both juvenile and adult court systems.…
“The Constitution of the United States was ordained; it is true, by descendants of Englishmen, who inherited the traditions of English law and history; but it was made for an undefined and expanding future, and for a people gathered and to be gathered from many nations and of many tongues” (Zalman, 2008 PG 1). —Justice Stanley Matthews…
One pro of this Article is the fact that the executive branch, or the President, does not have an official role in the amendment process. He cannot veto a proposed amendment. This limitation to power, an example of the system of ‘check and balances’ so central to the philosophy of the Constitution, prevents the President from engaging in self-serving ratification.…
The United States Constitution is the supreme law if the land, produced by our founding fathers more than 200 years ago. However, since the era of Presidents Washington and Jefferson is gone, many things have lost it is original intent, specifically the subject of the judicial review system, better known as judicial activism.…
At one point it was expected, that the Congress would pass laws, the President would execute them, and the Supreme Court would interpret them in individual cases. This was the framework for the Separation of Powers; established by the Constitution, and stuck to it for the greater part of our history. The Founding Fathers were well-acquainted with a long-held tenet of government: the accumulation of power by a single person or body of government is the greatest threat to liberty. In fact, a celebrated feature of the…