“Officers of government were under the law and could be called to account in court, statutes contrary to the Constitution were not valid laws, and the Court claimed for itself the authority to decide what the Constitution means and to measure the actions of other parts of the government against that meaning”, declared Chief Justice Marshall, who highlights, in this excerpt from the case Marbury v. Madison in 1803, what would become the concept of judicial review (Stephenson 36). The Constitution is a “living” document that has been around over 200 years and has been interpreted differently over time for the good of the people. While the Framers were creating the Constitution, they did not want a monarchy or autocratic government, and thu
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