... first instance that the Supreme Court showed its power under the cloak of judicial review was in the legendary case of Marbury v. Madison. In the confusion of leaving office, President John Adams failed to have delivered four commissions which he had made before having to surrender his power to Thomas Jefferson. In fact, the responsibility of delivering the commissions was left ... in the hands of John Marshall, the former Secretary of State under Adams, who was now the chief justice of the Supreme Court. When Jefferson took office, he refused to have the commissions delivered, and ... ...

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... the years following set a new standard in obscenity and indecency. One of these cases was Memoirs v. Massachusetts (1966). This case involved a book called Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure written by John Cleland in about 1750. The book itself was put on trial when the Massachusetts Attorney General wanted the book to be labeled obscene. The lower courts agreed with the Attorney ... the first 15 seconds of each show and also in many guides and newspaper listings. Along with the television ratings system, came V-chip technology. The new V-Chip allowed parents to block any program or certai...

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... president would become a king. The Federalists - people who were in support of the Constitution - tried to counter these arguments in The Federalist - a series of 85 articles written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison. In Federalist No. 37, James Madison stated, "It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it [the Constitution] a finger of that ... limited was when Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore installed a 5,300-pound granite monument - depicting the King James Bible version of the Ten Commandments sitting on top of a granite block...

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