The constitutional origins and implications of judicial review

Virginia Law Review

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 333-

  Harrison, John ^a  

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EID: 0346408817     PISSN: 00426601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1073667     Document Type: Article

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1. 5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 137 (1803).
2. David Currie, for example, thinks Marbury's result persuasive and much of its reasoning instructive but still finds that the opinion provides "no obvious peg on which to hang Marshall's conclusion." David P. Currie, The Constitution in the Supreme Court: The First Hundred Years, 1789-1888, at 73 (1985). William Van Alstyne, after a close and powerful reading that picks apart many of the details of Marshall's reasoning, concludes that the whole may be more than the sum of its parts: "Each argument, and each textual fragment on which the argument rested, may not seem especially compelling by itself. However, perhaps the separate pieces support each other, the fragments draw together, and the 'whole' of Marshall's argument is much better than each part separately considered." William W. Van Alstyne, A Critical Guide to Marbury v. Madison, 1969 Duke L.J. 1, 29.