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Weeks before Jon Adams’ term as president of the United States was coming to an end, he signed the Judiciary Act of 1801. This act was Adams’ way of altering and reorganizing the Supreme Court in his favor before leaving office. With this act, he appointed sixteen circuit judges and forty-two Federalist justices. These justices were called midnight judges because they were appointed up until the last hour of Adam’s presidency, which ended March 4, 1801. He did this as a last-minute effort to ensure that members of his political party would have powerful positions in government. While Adams was a Federalist, our 3rd president Thomas Jefferson was a Republican. Jefferson was enraged at the last-minute appointments as most of the men were conservative …show more content…

He was outspoken about his views, never afraid to speak his mind. In May of 1803, Chase stated “The country was headed down the road to mobocracy, the worst of all popular governments and that Democratic-Republicans would destroy all security for property, and personal liberty." Samuel Chase, 1803. Jefferson and his followers found this statement to be seditious, and that it threatened the principles in which the constitution was written. When Jefferson became aware of the justice’s statements and actions, he demanded action against it. In a letter Jefferson wrote to one of his party leaders, he wrote, "Ought this seditious and official act on the principles of our Constitution, and on the proceedings of a State, to go unpunished? And to whom so pointedly as yourself will the public look for the necessary measures? I ask these questions for your consideration, for myself it is better that I should not interfere." Thomas Jefferson, 1803. Because of this and many other instances in which Chase spoke his mind, the House of Representatives voted that he was to be impeached. The case was taken before the Supreme Court where it was presented for over a week. Some argued that he had not committed any impeachable crimes, while others found his outspoken attitude to be dangerous. During his trial, he did not testify and he was represented by the highly regarded and respected lawyer, Martin Luther. On March 1, 1805, he was found not guilty of all charges. Chase continued to serve six more years as an Associate Justice until his death of a heart attack on the 19th of June in

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The Midnight appointments start at the beginning of the Judicial review. William Marbury was the second midnight judge appointed by John Adams before Thomas Jefferson was in office. The midnight judges were judges appointed by John Adams and created sixteen new judgeships and federal courts. The judicial review was started by the Marbury v Madison case, with the question of whether the Supreme Court has the power to order the delivery of Marbury's commission. John Adams made William Marbury a commission, but James Madison, the secretary of state, refused to deliver the commission.

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Adams Appoints Marshall In Adams Appoints Marshall by Gordon S. Wood the thesis is how John Marshall saved the Court’s Independence and made possible its vast-raging role today. “Many Jurists and constitutional scholars stand for the 1803 ruling in the case of Marbury v. Madison to be in most precedent case in the early republic,” (86). This would not have happen if John Marshall was not appointed. John Marshall’s campaign goal was to not only to save the courts role in interpreting the constitution but its dependence as well.

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The government would become too centered and focused on the government. Marbury was a judge that Adams appointed last second,

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The election of 1800 was a close race between President John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the Democratic-Republican Vice President seeking his own term as President. As the election progressed, Adams appointed several Federalist judges to the judiciary. This became known as the “Midnight Judges” (John Adams 4). Jefferson resented these appointments and saw them as a threat towards his presidency. Adams was the first “presidents not to attend the inauguration of his successor.

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Furthermore, the country’s two most qualified constitutional draftsmen, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia and John Adams of Massachusetts, both of them influential in essential states in the struggle for ratification and cohorts of the new Constitution, had been assigned to Europe on diplomatic duty. Consequently, their participation in the deliberations of the new Constitution or in the open debates over ratification could not take place. They nonetheless communicated among one another and with associates back home, willingly exchanging ideas on the Constitution’s weaknesses and strengths. A number of the Framers requested the views of Jefferson and Adam. For example, James Madison of Virginia communicated of a frequent with Jefferson, as Roger

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Despite the differences between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the author does a good job demonstrating how the two candidates will be admired in the history of America. Jefferson was reelected, again over Adams and others, in 1804. The two men did not talk again ever since. They do become friends when Adams made the move to write a sorry letter to Thomas, on January 1st 1812, wishing him many more years to come. Adams' last words before he died was, "Jefferson still lives!"

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They were again on good terms, but Adams wrote to his wife, Abigail Adams, that Jefferson was a “man poisoned by ambition and his temper embittered against the constitution.” In 1793, when Jefferson

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In Marbury v. Madison (1803) it was announced by the Supreme Court for the very first time, that if an act was deemed inconsistent with the constitution then the court was allowed to declare the act void. Thomas Jefferson’s secretary of state, James Madison, denied William Marbury of his commission. President John Adams appointed William Marbury the justice of peace for the District of Columbia during his last day in office. Madison denied Marbury of this commission because he believed that because it was not issued before the termination of Adams presidency, that it was invalid. Marbury himself started a petition, along with three others who were in a similar situation.

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However, there are a couple of people that were involved in the case besides William Marbury and president John Adams. For instance, the Supreme Court Justice who took the case, and ultimately decided the ruling, was Chief Justice John Marshall who, writing for a unanimous court, denied the petition and refused to issue the writ of mandamus that William Marbury and three other similarly situated appointees, delivered to Chief Justice John Marshall. One other person who was included in this court case was the new President who replaced John Adams on March 4, 1801, Thomas Jefferson. He was included in the case because he had ordered that the four remaining commissions be

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