On June 11, 1776, Congress appointed a "Committee of Five", consisting of John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Robert R. Livingston of New York, and Roger Sherman of Connecticut, to draft a declaration.
Marbury v. Madison was the first case in which the Supreme Court struck down a federal law as unconstitutional and it is most significant for its role in establishing the Supreme Court's power of judicial review, or the power to invalidate laws as unconstitutional.
<em>Answer:Slaves sold in the slave market at Montgomery, Alabama, likely to have come largely from Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee. Until the Thirteenth Amendment that came into the united colonies of America in 1865 slavery was a legal phenomenon.</em>
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