• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    What more than that do most people need to know about Marbury v. Madison? What is the significance or relevance to day of the debates over it and the events leading up to it? Because I don’t think that is anywhere near as important as the emphasis you place on it.

    Knowing that judicial review is a thing and that SCOTUS can do it and why they have that power should be enough for most people.

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      Marbury v. Madison established judicial review, which allows the SC to strike down laws as unconstitutional.

      That only gives the what and how of the situation, not the why. Some explanation of why they were given that power is useful for the average citizen

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        Some explanation is not a dozen long online textbook pages. Especially when women as a whole in the 19th century rated four short pages.