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Supreme Court United States Supreme Court: Fletcher v. Peck & Marbury v. Madison Throughout the history of the United States America, many court cases between citizens, state government and federal government, and businesses have been brought to the Supreme Court. These cases usually involve some aspect of the constitution being debated. Many of the cases the Supreme Court has dealt with are similar in constitutional issues, historical context, and rights. This applies to the court cases Fletcher v. Peck and Marbury v. Madison. They both dealt with the interpretation of law and judicial review. In the court case, Marbury v. Madison the defendant was Marbury and the plaintiff was Madison. Towards the end of President John Adams term Congress passed the Judiciary Act of 1801. This decreased the number of Supreme Court Justice positions and increased the number of federal judge positions. Because of this, many justices had to leave and many federal judges were needed. During last few movements in office he made midnight appointments. Midnight appointments are the last minute filling of government posts. John Adams filled the posts all with court, states, law, supreme, cases, state, marbury, united, under, madison, legislature, fletcher, constitution, peck, contract, power, one, made, act, shall, review, laws, land, judicial, john, federal, robert, marshall, georgia, congress, unconstitutional, section, rights, passed, new