Notes from 10-17

-courts crack down on Jeffersonians newspaper
-states can nullify a law
- Virginia and Kentucky resolves
-resolves don't get passed and don't go into effect
-Election of 1800
- Jefferson becomes President
-Aaron Burr becomes his Vice President
-Burr and Jefferson tied in the Electoral College because Federalists control Congress and they
reached an agreement a compromise in the House of Representatives
- this takes place in the House because the constitution states that if nobody gets a majority in
the electoral college then the decision is then passed over to the House
- a tie occurred because members vote for their party and electors lean towards their own
political party
- This election leads to the 12th amendment in which there are 2 separate votes in the Electoral College. One for vice president and one for president.
-Jefferson supports strong states government
-doesn't like courts
-judges are appointed by President and confirmed by the President so when Jefferson comes
into office judges are Federalists
-Judicial Act of 1801
-reduces number of supreme court from 6 to 5
- revised system and established 16 new positions that required judges
-Adams appoints Federalists and Jefferson is not happy
- the appointments that Adam makes the night before his term ends become known
as Midnight Judges
-Jeffersonians think they can get rid of them by impeaching them. They impeach John
Pickering and the Senate trial finds him guilty.
- They try to impeach Samuel Chase but are not so lucky. He is found not guilty.
-Marbury v. Madison
- Marbury knows that Adams had signed the confirmation for him to be a supreme
court justice and demands that they allow it. He is denied so he goes to the Supreme
Court.
-Marbury talks to John Marshall but Marshall is hesitant because he deosn't want
Jefferson to find a way to weaken the Judicial Branch
*** It established the principle of Judicial Review.