Columbus believed he had reached Asia when he had traveled less than halfway there because geographical knowledge at the time was limited. They believed if they sailed West they would reach Asia by sea but actually ended up in the Americas. He thought the world was smaller than it actually was.
Many ideas stemmed from the Articles of Confederation as it was America's "first" constitution. Even though many believed it to be a failure.
The U.S. Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison (1803) established the principle of judicial review—the power of the federal courts to declare legislative and executive acts unconstitutional. The unanimous opinion was written by Chief Justice John Marshall.
Ancient civilizations often credited the creation of the world to other worldly - or as we'd think of them today "supernatural" - beings who they personified as being decidedly human. The ancients did not tend to have the sort of scientific, logical, evidence-based understanding of the workings of the world that we have now. Instead, the credited the creation of the world to beings who they imagined as being human, in a sense, but also far more powerful and mystical.
