According to Chief Justice Marshall, if a case is about a "paper, which, according to law, is upon record, and to a copy of which the law gives (someone) a rightthen that case is which type?
He repeatedly hammered the theme that, in national as in state courts, justice would be secured by reason of the independence of the judiciary. He also asserted the authority and duty of the federal courts to pass upon the constitutionality of acts of Congress, thus anticipating the decision in Marbury v.
