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Where is the Supreme Court's right of judicial review defined in the Constitution?

I'll save you the trouble - it isn't. The court just made it up.



This is a popular fringe argument that is flimsy enough to be practically disqualifying. Judicial review was established in the time of the framers, smack in the middle of the presidency of Thomas Jefferson, and is discussed in the Federalist Papers. It's as solid a component of the American system as anything else is.


I don't know about "disqualifying" but it does dredge up a pretty old Federalist/Anti-Federalist beef: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_No._78.


... aligning with the Anti-Federalists more or less confirms that you're operating in an alternative universe, doesn't it? Not that they're wrong, but they're the opponents of the Constitution.




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