It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is. ~ Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison (1803) To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an […]
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SCOTUS: 6 despots in minister’s robes
It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is. ~ Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison (1803) To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an […]
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