The Federalists in Power and the Emergence of a Two-Party System

Answers #55-#81

  1. What major appointment did President Adams make shortly before he left office?
  2. For how long did John Marshall preside over the Supreme Court?
  3. How did the Supreme Court decisions under Marshall’s leadership strengthen the federal courts?
  4. How did the Supreme Court rule in the case of Marbury v. Madison?
  5. What precedent did Marbury v. Madison set for the federal courts?
  6. What is a precedent?
  7. Define judicial review.
  1. What example did the Marbury v. Madison decision set for future Supreme Court rulings?
  2. Why is the right of judicial review so important to the Supreme Court?
  1. How did the Marshall Court’s decision in McCulloch v. Maryland strengthen the federal government’s power over the states?
  2. What were the facts of the case in McCulloch v. Maryland?
  1. What two legal questions did the McCulloch case present?
  1. What two points did the Supreme Court make in its unanimous decision in McCulloch v. Maryland?
  1. What did Chief Justice Marshall say about implied powers in the McCulloch Decision?
  2. What laws did Chief Justice Marshall declare to be supreme in the McCulloch Decision?
  3. How did the Marshall Court rule on the Maryland state law that levied (placed) taxes on the Baltimore branch of the Second Bank of the United States?
  4. Who believed it was very important for the federal government to be more powerful than the state governments?
  5. Who wrote, “The power to tax is the power to destroy”?
  6. By declaring a state law unconstitutional, what power held by the federal courts did the McCulloch Decision strengthen?
  7. What view did John Marshall set forth in the Supreme Court’s 1824 decision in Gibbons v. Ogden?
  8. What did the case of Gibbons v. Ogden involve?
  1. How did the Supreme Court rule in the case of Gibbons v. Ogden?
  2. What is interstate commerce?
  3. What Chief Justice contributed greatly to the Supreme Court’s importance in relation to the other branches of the national government?
  4. What doctrine did the Marshall Court use to settle disagreements between different branches of the national government?
  5. What doctrine did the Marshall Court use to settle disagreements between the federal government and the states?
  6. In what case did the Marshall Court provide the foundation block for the Supreme Court to settle disagreements between competing business interests?
/ 55. appointed John Marshall, a Federalist from Virginia, as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court
56. three decades (30 years)
57. established the power of the federal courts as an independent and equal branch of the United States government
58. declared a federal law unconstitutional
59. for the federal courts to exercise judicial review
60. an example for future action
61. the power to declare laws unconstitutional
62. set the example that the Supreme Court could declare other federal laws unconstitutional
63. gives the Supreme Court its main check on the power of the legislative branch (Congress)
64. It set forth the doctrine of implied powers.
65. 1) Congress chartered (created) the Second Bank of the United States (BUS). 2) Maryland passed a law to tax the Baltimore branch of the BUS. 3) The Baltimore bank refused to pay this tax.
66. 1) Did Congress have the authority to establish the BUS? 2) Did the Maryland law unconstitutionally interfere with congressional powers?
67. 1) Congress had the power to incorporate (create) the BUS. 2) Maryland could not tax agencies of the national government, which carried out constitutional powers.
68. Congress possessed implied powers that the Constitution did not specifically mention.
69. The Constitution and federal laws are supreme; they override state constitutions and state laws.
70. The Maryland state law that taxed the BUS was unconstitutional.
71. Chief Justice John Marshall
72. John Marshall
73. the power of judicial review
74. a broadly national view of economic affairs
75. the state of New York’s regulations for steamboats, which did business between New York and New Jersey
76. that the federal government had complete control over interstate commerce
77. trade between states
78. John Marshall
79. the doctrine of judicial review (Marbury v. Madison)
80. the doctrine of implied powers (McCulloch v. Maryland)
81. Gibbons v. Ogden