Seperation of Powers in US History

The Marbury vs. Madison (1803) case caused conflict between Executive branch and the Legislative branch. William Marbury argued that he was legally entitled to his legally entitled to his commission. He requested that the Supreme Court issue a writ of mandamus directed towards the Secretary of State, James Madison. Madison ignored this request saying

When Marbury asked the Supreme Court to issue the writ, he was essentially asking the court to take original jurisdiction. By doing this, Marbury was asking the Supreme Court to be a trial court, even though the it was set up to be an appellate court. The Supreme Court was supposed to hear appeals from other federal and state courts. Article III, Section 2, Clause 2 states that the types of cases that the Supreme Court could use original jurisdiction in. This then meant that the Supreme Court could not write a writ of mandamus, only a lower court was allowed to. Marshall then concluded that Section 13 of the Judiciary Act of 1789 authorized the court to issue a writ violated the United States Constitution. The final decision of the case was that

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