Marbury V. Madison(1803) This landmark decision helped establish the parameters of Judicial review and formed the modern understanding of the system of checks and balances. Ultimately, the court found that the law upon which this case was base, was unconstitutional because it required the court to reach beyond the power allocated to it in Article III of the constitution. Marbury V. Madison is the first time a court declared an American law uncoonstitutional.
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