The Power of Courts to Determine Whether Acts of Congress

question 41

Multiple Choice

The power of courts to determine whether acts of Congress and the executive are constitutional is the power of ____________,first articulated in ___________.

• A)stare decisis; Marbury v. Madison
• B)writ of certiorari; United States v. Nixon
• C)judicial review; Brown v. Board of Education
• D)judicial review; Marbury v. Madison
• E)judicial activism; Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States

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