Note 182 — Chapter II
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Ib. 47-48. Senator Jackson here refers to the case of Marbury vs. Madison, then pending before the Supreme Court. (See infra, chap. iii.) This case was mentioned several times during the debate. It is plain that the Republicans expected Marshall to award the mandamus, and if he did, to charge this as another act of judicial aggression for which, if the plans already decided upon did not miscarry, they would make the new Chief Justice suffer removal from his office by impeachment. (See infra, chap. iv.)