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Quotes from Marbury v. Madison — John Marshall

1755–1835 United States

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It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.

Marbury v. Madison (1803)

This is of the very essence of judicial duty.

Marbury v. Madison (1803)

The Government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. It will certainly cease to deserve this high appellation if the laws furnish no remedy for the violation of a vested legal right.

Marbury v. Madison (1803)

The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws whenever he receives an injury. One of the first duties of government is to afford that protection.

Marbury v. Madison (1803)

Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void.

Marbury v. Madison (1803)

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