"It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. Those who apply the rule to particular cases must of necessity expound and interpret that rule. If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each." — Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison (1803)
The political tensions surrounding this 1803 decision arose most directly from which event?
- Acheck_circle
The Federalists' midnight appointments after losing the 1800 election
- B
The ratification of the Twelfth Amendment
- C
The Louisiana Purchase negotiations with France
- D
The Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania
Explanation
The case arose from William Marbury's commission as a justice of the peace, one of the "midnight appointments" made by outgoing Federalist president John Adams to entrench Federalist judges before Jefferson took office.