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Describe the case of Marbury vs. Madison

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The 1803 case in which Chief Justice John Marshall and his associates first asserted the right of the Supreme Court to determine the meaning of the U.S. Constitution. The decision established the Court's power of judicial review over acts of Congress, (the Judiciary Act of 1789).
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In marbury v. madison that main thing that happened was that it was the first time judicial review was used
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