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Creation of the Supreme Court - Article Three of the Constitution
The Judiciary Act of 1789 is what got the Supreme Court started but it didn't actually have a great deal of power until 1801 when Cheif Justice John Marshall took over. -
John Jay
He was the first Cheif Justice which I think is important because evewn though he didn't do a whole lot he still did better than some. He was nominated for Cheif Justice twice and refused the second time. -
John Marshall
I think he is the most significant Cheif Justice of this time period becuse he helped strenghten the Supreme Court and made it so that they could say what was or wasn't constitutional. His most important case as Cheif Justice was the Marbury v Madison case which was in Febuary of 1803 -
Marbury v Madison
It starts with John Adams the night of his last day in office he appoints people of his own party to the supreme court and Jefferson doesn't accept that he appoints his own people to the position so one of the people sue the secretary of state James Madison and it goes to the supreme court and they rule that they can't give him his commision but they are able to strengthen the supreme court because of this also they gained the power to nullify acts passed by congress. -
Fletcher v peck
It was a case where people had bribed Georgia in to selling land in mississippi and they went back on the sale it went to supreme court and John Marshall ruled that it was constitutional even though it fraudulent and the supreme gained the power to say whether or not something a state did went against the constitution. -
Dartmouth College v Woodward
The state of New Hampshire tried to change Dartmouth's charter because it was granted by King George III and it was ruled by John Marshall that it had to stay the same because contract so both parties had to agree to changes. -
McCollough v. Maryland
It was a case where Maryland to pass a law to put taxes on out of state banks but Congress said that the law was just targeting the Second National Bank of the United States. So the Supreme Court invokes the Necessary and Proper clause which allows the Federal Government which allowed them to pass laws that weren't actually in the Constitution. -
Gibbons v. Ogden
It was a case that argued over who should be allowed to use the waterways around New York for commerce the Supreme Court ruled in the favor of Gibbons. -
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Georgia enacted laws that stripped the Cherokee of their rights under the laws of the state and tried force them off of their lands. So instead of fighting the Cerokee tried to take them to court. -
Worcester v. Georgia
It was a case where the Supreme Court ruled that thst having to have a licsense (for Non-Indians) from the state to be on Indian land was unconstitutional. -
Commonwealth v. Hunt
Case in which Massachusetts Supreme Court that criminal conspiracy didn't apply to labor unions. So then you couldn't be fired if you broke one of the union rules. -
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Also known as the Dred Scott desicion it was a ruling by the supreme court that even though Illinois was a free state he was still the property of his owner because he was bought in a slave state. This is important because it shows just how things operated with the slaves back then they where property not people.
