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What did Jefferson tell Madison to hold off on thus preventing the judges from judging

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Jefferson strongly disagreed with the Supreme Court's decision in the case of Marbury v. Madison. Probably, he would have decided that since Congress had reasonably interpreted an ambiguous phrase of the Constitution, the courts should defer to that interpretation.

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