The case Marbury v. Madison is argued to be the most important case in the history of the Supreme Court. In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson of the Democrat-Republican Party defeated then President John Adams of the Federalist Party in the Presidential Election. Before Adams left office, he appointed judges from his federalist party to the D.C. Courts, which the Senate later approved. After the appointed judges were approved by the Senate the last thing then needed their Commission Paper. Unfortunately, all the commissions were not being delivered to the judges by the time President Adams had left office. Once President Jefferson took office he put a hold on issuing the commissions to Adams appointed judges by having his Secretary of State James Madison keep them from being delivered. These judges weren’t even given a reason as to why they could not receive their commissions. One of the judges Adams appointed, William …show more content…
Madison case. Marshall came up with three rulings on this case. First Marshall ruled that Marbury had the right to receive his commission and also ruled Marbury had a right to remedy. His third ruling was that the Supreme Court didn’t have the power to make Secretary Madison hand over the commissions. Chief Justice Marshall then brought up the Judiciary Act of 1789. Which was an act to establish the Judicial Courts, Article III of that document is what established the Supreme Court and gave Congress the authority to the create the lower Federal Courts. Marshall stated that Section XIII of this Article was in violation of The Constitution because it gave the courts powers The Constitution said they were limited to; It wasn’t their place to rule over a case like this. By eliminating the Judiciary Act of 1789, which he found to be unconstitutional. It was also like him taking a blow on Congress because this now limited their power over the Judiciary