Marbury v. Madison Revisited: A Historical Reevaluation of a Foundational Precedent’s Immediate Impact

• In Event: Constitutional Interpretation and Supreme Court

Brief Overview

A review of political correspondence and state judicial decisions in the decades following Marbury v. Madison (1803) reveal that this foundational precedent was immediately authoritative in its establishment of judicial review.

Authors

• Nilesh Sinha, Hampden-Sydney College

• Eric T. Kasper, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire