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Comment Re:Marbury vs. Madison (Score 3, Informative) 417

by Jelanen on Tuesday September 27, 2005 @04:47PM (#13661589) Attached to: Broadcast Flag Back in Congress

The actual first instance of interpretational SCOTUS opinion, or, reading into the Constitution crap that ain't there, was Scott vs. Stanford. (Ref: Justice Antonin Scalia, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2005-03-15) Marbury vs. Madison just cemented the Court's recognized authority of judicial review; considering whether a law is Constitutional or not.

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