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Line 1: − '''Judicial review''' is the authority of the federal [[court]]s to declare [[law]] enacted by [[Congress]] un[[constitution]]al.<ref>US Government and Politics</ref> [[Chief Justice]] Marshall established this doctrine in ''[[Marbury v. Madison]]'':+ − − :It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. − − If, for example, a law is unconstitutional, then courts should not enforce 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]]. − − ==References== − − <references/> − − [[Category:United States Government]] − [[category:law]] − [[Category:Legal Terms]]
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