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In this declaration, for example, if a law is unconstitutional then courts should not enforce it. Since all laws and all departments are inferior to the Constitution, none should be continued which are contrary to it. This is not to be confused with additional unjustified power taken by the judiciary for itself that is known as [[judicial supremacy]] or [[judicial activism]], which was not the result of the ''Marbury'' ruling.
In this declaration, for example, if a law is unconstitutional then courts should not enforce it. Since all laws and all departments are inferior to the Constitution, none should be continued which are contrary to it. This is not to be confused with additional unjustified power taken by the judiciary for itself that is known as [[judicial supremacy]] or [[judicial activism]], which was not the result of the ''Marbury'' ruling.
In the 1783 ruling ''Commonwealth v. Caton'', [[George Wythe]] wrote: "If the whole legislature, an event to be deprecated, should attempt to overleap the bounds, prescribed to them by the people, I, in administering the public justice of the country, will meet the united powers, at my seat in this tribunal; and, pointing to the constitution, will say, to them, here is the limit of your authority; and, hither, shall you go, but no further."
John Marshall was a student of Wythe's while he attended law school.
==Review of executive decision making==
==Review of executive decision making==