Marbury v. Madison (1803) may have established the doctrine of judicial review [actually, that may have been established earlier; see Keith Whittington's recent book Repugnant Laws], but it didn't necessarily establish the doctrine of judicial supremacy. Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Roger Taney, and Abraham Lincoln help us understand the difference.

Judicial Supremacy

The 1787 Project is the podcast version of the lectures for Professor Justin Dyer's socially-distanced class on the U.S. Constitution at the University of Missouri. Running from August 2020 - May 2021, the course is about how the U.S. Constitution of 1787 frames the way we organize our life together as a political community. Published twice a week, the episodes explore who gets to decide big questions of public policy and why, analyze the design of our national political institutions and the contested boundaries between them, and look at the structure of constitutional rights.

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Judicial Supremacy

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