Decision for justice : John Marshall and the Supreme Court

Duration: 0:20:15

Genre: Drama | Educational | Historical

Year Published: 1955

Creator: Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor | Teaching Film Custodians: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: DuPont's "Cavalcade of America" is an anthology drama television series documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, emphasizing humanitarian progress, particularly improvements in the lives of women, often through technological innovation.This episode, which originally aired February 15th, 1955 on ABC-TV, dramatizes how John Marshall, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, contributed 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 (Marbury vs. 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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