As a Texan, I am proud of my stateâs football heritage. Year in and year out, great Texas high school football players pop up in both the big cities and the small towns across our state. The same can be said for California (which produces more NFL players than any other state) and Florida.
Marbury v. Madison was a court case that established the U.S. Supreme Court's power of judicial review. It did so because an act of Congress attempted to give the U.S. Supreme Court more authority than it rightfully had according to the U.S. Constitution, which was the supreme law of the land.
Even Chief Justice John Marshall, who as the author of Marbury v. Madison is the father of judicial review, recognized that courts should exercise that power with âmuch delicacyâ and should declare a law unconstitutional âseldom, if ever, . . . in a doubtful caseâ (Fletcher v. Peck [1810]).