Judicial Review In Supreme Court History

One of the primary foundations for the power which it exercises over the American judicial system is the basics of judicial review. This power consists of the ability of the Supreme Court to decide upon “review” that a piece of some form of Government action is not permitted under the Constitution and can be deemed “unconstitutional”. The Supreme Court established this idea early in its existence and was empowered as a vital institution in the American Government primarily by exercising it. Judicial review is controversial because an unelected group is charged with interpreting the Constitution and the validity of laws affecting the population. Judicial review should be void of all political favoring, however, the power granted to a body that is not accountable to the public can be seen as an imbalance in the checks and balances intended by the three branch system of democracy in the United States.
Madison arguably serves as the most important case in Supreme Court history, was the first U.S. Supreme Court case to apply the principle of "judicial review". A very common example of judicial review example derives from the Plessy vs Ferguson case. Having been arrested and convicted for violating the law requiring “Blacks” to ride in separate train cars, Homer Plessey appealed to the Supreme Court, stating the “Jim Crow” laws violated his 14th Amendment right to receive “equal protection under the law.” During the judicial review, the state argued that Plessey and other Blacks were receiving equal treatment, but