This was the first decision of the supreme court of the united states to declare an act of congress unconstitutional

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The case of Marbury v. Madison (1803) was the <em>first </em>time the U.S. Supreme Court declared an act of Congress to be unconstitutional.

<em>(The case concerned a section of the Judiciary Act of 1789.)</em>

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