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MARBURY v. MADISON, 5 U.S. 137, 1 Cranch 137, 2 L. Ed. 60

WILLIAM MARBURY v. JAMES MADISON, Secretary of State of the United States.

5 U.S. 137 |

U.S. Supreme Court


MARBURY v. MADISON, 5 U.S. 137 (1803)
5 U.S. 137 (Cranch)

WILLIAM MARBURY v. JAMES MADISON, Secretary of State of the United States.

February Term, 1803

AT the December term 1801, William Marbury, Dennis Ramsay, Robert Townsend Hooe, and William Harper, by their counsel [5 U.S. 137, 138]   severally moved the court for a rule to James Madison, secretary of state of the United States, to show cause why a mandamus should not issue commanding him to cause to be delivered to them respectively their several commissions as justices of the peace in the district of Columbia.

This motion was supported by affidavits of...