Social Sciences and History / Unit 1 SSH 0023 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Jefferson: 1800, Louisiana, Marbury
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The idea
The Quasi-War with France marked the Federalist high tide. The election of eighteen hundred passed power peacefully to Jefferson's party. The Louisiana Purchase of eighteen oh three doubled the nation.
In practice
Marbury against Madison, the same year, established judicial review.
Where people slip
The purchase suited Jefferson's agrarian republic. The Court's power to void laws came from the Court itself, not the Constitution's text.
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