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Albert Beveridge: Marshall avowed that the Supreme Court can and must do that very thing, and in so doing made Marbury vs.

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Marshall avowed that the Supreme Court can and must do that very thing, and in so doing made Marbury vs.
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Albert Beveridge
Republican · Indiana

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Beveridge asserts that the Supreme Court has the authority to invalidate congressional acts, a key principle of judicial review.

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