William Marbury didn't get what he'd been promised. So he sued and lost, but in the process U.S. citizens became winners. Marbury's fight against James Madison established the doctrine of judicial review which acts as a check on executive and legislative power. Read more about this landmark case in Sunday's Deseret News. Also see UEN's online resources and watch Ted Capener host a Utah discusssion of Marbury vs. Madison, Monday at 10 a.m. on KULC and 1:30 p.m. on KULC.

Also see Bicentennial of Landmark Supreme Court Decision by Scott M. Matheson, Jr. in Sunday's Salt Lake Tribune.

"What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable than that of liberty and learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?" --James Madison (in letter to W. T. Barry, August 4, 1822)

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