Section: AP Government

46) Which of the following landmark cases established judicial review?

1. Roe v. Wade
2. Plessy v. Ferguson
3. Marbury v. Madison
4. McCullouch v. Maryland
5. the Scopes trial

Marbury v. Madison is significant because it is the first case which really asserted the Supreme Court's power of Judicial Review.  The case came out of a struggle between the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans. After Thomas Jefferson was elected president, but before he was actually sworn into office the current president, John Adams and the Federalist congress created a number of new judgeships (Judiciary Act of 1801) and appointed all Federalists in order to try and balance out the Jeffersonians once they took over.