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How did marbury and madison affect the power of the judicial branch?

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Marbury v. Madison marked the moment that the Supreme Court established itself as a co-equal branch of government.

In Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court carved out a space where it declared that it had the ability to review laws to determine whether they were constitutional.

While the Supreme Court rarely knocked a law down as unconstitutional in the 1800s, everyone now knew that they could.

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