Decision for Justice: John Marshall

Duration: 20

Year Published: 1955

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Description: Re-enacts, through dramatic presentation, John Marshall's contribution to the establishment of the Supreme Court as the ultimate interpreter of the Constitution. Portrays the case of a government job appointee versus Secretary of State Madison in which the former aims to regain a job to which he had been appointed by a previous administration. Points out that many doubted the power of the Supreme Court and shows how Chief Justice Marshall and the associate justices established the authority of the court to review the constitutionality of laws by declaring part of the Judicial Act of 1789 unconstitutional.

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