The Supreme Court has been responsible for many landmark decisions that cover an array of topics. Today we reviewed landmark cases that involve specific articles of the Constitution. We discussed the cases of: Marbury v. Madison, Gibbons v. Ogden, and McCulloch v. Maryland. These cases concerned specific articles of the Constitution and the conflicts that different levels of government might have with one another.
Marbury v. Madison established the concept of judicial review and affirmed the U.S. Constitution as the law of the land. Gibbons v. Ogden stated that a federal law supersedes a state law. McCulloch v. Maryland added that the federal government can do things even if they are not specifically mentioned as powers in the Constitution. While these cases may be hard to remember separately, Marbury v. Madison is where all major Supreme Court decisions start, as it set the precedent for all major decisions that would follow. The other two cases concern the powers of Congress found in Article I and whose laws are second in
importance to the Constitution.