Shot at/Shot back

Subject: (OT) Shot at/Shot back
From: Ed Rasimus
Date: 3/6/04 8:03 AM Pacific Standard Time
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On 06 Mar 2004 15:22:27 GMT, (ArtKramr) wrote:

Subject: (OT) Shot at/Shot back
From: "George Z. Bush" am

Tied in vote total with Thomas
Jefferson he became vice president by decision of the House of
Representives
but is probably most known for killing Alexander Hamilton in a duel. He

I think he is better known for his part in the landmark Supreme Court case
Marbury V. Madison,(1804) a case which effects our lives to this day.

Arthur Kramer

Marbury v Madison?...and Aaron Burr? Nahh.

The players in the case were John Adams (who made the appointment to
Marbury), and John Marshall who should have delivered the appointment.
When Jefferson became president, he directed James Madison (who had
replaced Marshall) to not deliver the pending appointments so he could
reward his own supporters. Marbury sued Madison asking the courts to
issue a writ of mandamus to compel the executive branch to fulfill the
appointment of the previous president.

Marshall, now chief justice of the Supreme Court, took the opportunity
to institute the principal of judicial review, which had not been
spelled out in the Constitution--ruling that the courts could not
mandate the executive to act. That would be a violation of separation
of powers.

With that case, the idea that the Supreme Court could rule on
constitutionality of legislative and judicial acts was established.

But, no Burr involved as far as I know.


Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
"When Thunder Rolled"
Smithsonian Institution Press
ISBN #1-58834-103-8

Exactly. Burr never involved.



Arthur Kramer
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