The Following Questions Refer to the Excerpt Below

question 44

Multiple Choice

The following questions refer to the excerpt below.
"The question,whether an act,repugnant to the constitution,can become the law of the land,is a question deeply interesting to the United States,but,happily,not of an intimacy proportioned to its interest.It seems only necessary to recognize certain principles,supposed to have been long and well established to decide it… Thus,the particular phraseology of the constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle,supposed to be essential to all written constitutions,that a law repugnant to the constitution is void;and that courts,as well as other departments,are bound by that instrument…"
Chief Justice John Marshall,1803
-In this excerpt,"the law of the land"

• A) has to abide by the Constitution.
• B) must go through several phases before it becomes law.
• C) is void if it only recognizes certain principles.
• D) is a real concern as no one in the United States knows what it is.

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