Sublime

The measure that gave Marshall the authority to circumvent it was concealed as a rider to the Army’s annual appropriation bill.32

Eisenhower’s appointment of Earl Warren to be chief justice of the United States, like John Adams’s appointment of John Marshall, was one of the major events of his presidency.

Ultimately, Ike would appoint five justices to the court, including John Marshall Harlan and William Brennan.75 His appointees ushered in a judicial revolution in citizenship law, civil liberties, and civil rights.

championed the broad-constructionist perspective, which radically changed Constitutional interpretation.

The authority of those papal bulls was adopted into U.S. law in 1823 in three seminal Supreme Court cases known as the Marshall Trilogy. Chief Justice John Marshall stated that the United States was a successor in interest to the lands held by the American Indians, based on rights that were claimed under the Christian Law of Nations (laws of conque

Fortas felt confident that the jurisdictional grounds would persuade a single Supreme Court Justice—particularly the Justice with administrative responsibility for the Fifth Circuit, Hugo Black—to do what a single Circuit Court judge would not: grant their plea for a stay of the injunction and thereby allow Johnson’s name to go on the ballot. Getti

In July the cabinet sent Jay twenty-nine queries to clarify the meaning of neutrality and rule on American jurisdiction over the French seizure of ships in American waters. On August 8, replying on behalf of the Supreme Court, Jay declined to render an advisory opinion. The Constitution, he said, had set up three independent branches of government,

In the trial of Samuel Chase, the principle had been proven. The Senate had been created to be independent, to stand against the tyranny of presidential power and the tides of public opinion. It had stood.