William Marbury v. James Madison, Secretary of State of the United States

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Pages 162–167: rights, remedies and ministerial duties. Pages 176–180: written constitutional limits, oath obligations and conflicting legislation. The Court denied the requested mandamus for want of constitutional original jurisdiction. It did not convict Madison or create a general crime of constitutional violation. Cornell omits counsel’s arguments on pages 139–152; it is not a complete facsimile of the report. Archival links: LOC report record/viewer: https://www.loc.gov/resource/usrep.usrep005137/?pdfPage=1 LOC report PDF: https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/usrep/usrep005/usrep005137/usrep005137.pdf Opinion transcription: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/5/137

Date

1803-02-24 (decision)

Credits

Supreme Court of the United States; Chief Justice John Marshall

Reference collection

Reported opinion in Cranch, volume 1 / U

Archival identity, document boundaries and provenance reviewed; generated text PDF pages visually checked for layout and continuous source coverage. No independent human proofreading. Complete 44-page report scan covering 5 U.S. 137–180, including arguments and the opinion; adjoining case text appears on shared pages. Embedded historical-print OCR is imperfect and retained as supplied.

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