The best-known power of the Supreme Court is judicial review, or the ability of the Court to declare a Legislative or Executive act in violation of the Constitution, is not found within the text of the Constitution itself. The Court established this doctrine in the case of Marbury v. Madison (1803).
C. Divine theory
Or more specifically, the divine-right theory (since the divine theory only establishes that an action's morality and rightness is derived from god, whereas the divine right theory argues that a king is given the right to rule by a god).
The Medicine Creek treaty.
The "Boldt Decision" (named after the judge who made the ruling) was officially the decision in United States v. Washington, a case heard <span>in the </span>United States District Court for the Western District of Washington<span> and the </span>United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in 1974.
The Treaty of Medicine Creek (1854) was one of several treaties in view, including the Treaty of Olympia (1855), Treaty of Point Elliott (1855), and the Point No Point Treaty (1855). Isaac Stevens was the governor of the Washington Territory, who had been involved in signing such treaties.
The Boldt Decision affirmed the fishing rights of Native American tribes in waters not located on their reservation lands, but where they had traditionally fished and held that the tribes were entitled to half the fish harvest from those waters each year.
