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From: rhorn@infinet.UUCP (Rob Horn)
Newsgroups: talk.abortion,net.legal
Subject: Re: Interesting legal issues
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Date: Fri, 3-Oct-86 10:18:08 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  3 10:18:08 1986
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Summary: List of key cases defining role of Supreme Court

In article <201@mipos3.UUCP> ekwok@mipos3.UUCP (Edward C. Kwok) writes:
>In article <752@oswego.UUCP> gacs3651@oswego.UUCP (Robert Knighton) writes:
>>	Recently I read an interesting piece written by a lawyer about the 
>>constitutional legality of the decisions of the supreme court becoming the
>>law of the land.
>
>Justice John Marshall, some time very early in the history of the union,

Marbury v. Madison, 1803 - where the notion that the Court could rule
on the constitutionality of a law was introduced.  Very controversial
at the time, and the debate included many of the writers of the
Constitution.  (The outcome of the debate should be obvious.)

Other directly relevant cases are:

United States v. Burr, 1807

McCulloch v. Maryland, 1816

Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 1819

Read some histories of the Court and you will get a much better
appreciation for the various issues involved and how the current
system evolved.
-- 
				Rob  Horn
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