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Marbury v. Madison is a case decided by the United States Supreme Court in 1803, which has gained prominence in American jurisprudence. With this decision, the Supreme Court stated the right to review federal laws for their constitutionality and to annul such laws (judicial review). Not least because of this vote, the court under Chief Justice John Marshall, referred to as "the Marshall Court", gained political and historical significance.
The case is also internationally notable since it was the first to bring forth the concept of constitutional jurisdiction. Although there has been case law in Europe since the 15th century on the delimitation of the rights of state organs, judicial review was due to the political system of the American Constitution in a qualitatively new constellation, as a positivist control in the field of tension between popular sovereignty and separation of powers.