...(1788) Alexander Hamilton argued that limited government required that courts of justice be empowered to "declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void," and Marshall's opinion in Marbury reflected much of Hamilton's reasoning. Marshall stressed the duty...

...judicial independence is necessary to support the exercise of judicial review, ie, the duty of the courts "to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void." Judges can determine constitutionality hecause "the interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar...

...contrast, argued in Federalist No. 78 that the Constitution could limit the power of government "in no other way than through the medium of the courts...contrary to the manifest tenor of the constitution void."35 "Without this," he added, "all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount...

...executive. In the words of Alexander Hamilton in The Federalist Papers (no. 78) the duty of the Court 'must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void'. After the 1803 case, the authority of the courts to act as the final arbiter on constitutional matters...

...justice are obligated not merely to hold void acts in clear conflict with the Constitution. They are also "to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void." He denies that this makes the courts superior to the legislature. In fact it "only supposes that the...

...in a republic hinge upon the right kind of judicial power. Constitutional limits on the legislature "can be preserved in practice no other way than through...contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void." It soon is clear that the reasoning which discerns such a power in the Constitution stems largely from...

...such, for instance, as that it shall pass no bills of attainder, no ex post facto laws, and the like. Limitations of this kind can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the...

...Constitution. Hamilton argued that under the Constitution, the limits devised to curtail the power of Congress can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the...

...Constitution, I understand one which contains certain specified exceptions to the legislative authority; . . . Limitations of this kind can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the...

...Constitution, I understand one which contains certain specified exceptions to the legislative authority;... Limitations of this kind can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the...