Imagine you are a reporter. Your newspaper editor wants a story on a major event that occurred during Jefferson’s presidency. In order to write a story, you need to compile the facts on a specific event. Your article will be on the Haitian Rebellion!
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Article Title (Relate to the Event):
Newspaper (Make Up a Name):
Reporter (Your Name):
Copyeditor (Your Parent or Guardian’s Name):
Editor (Your Instructor’s Name):
Date:

First Step: Hook your reader into wanting to read your article. You could tell a story or use a quote. You might relate the past to modern events or your readers’ lives. Introduce the event and basic facts like people and places. Use at least three to five sentences.

Second Step: Discuss one reason why the event is so important. Use facts to back up your idea.

Third Step: Discuss a second reason for the event’s importance. Use facts.

Fourth Step: Discuss a third reason for the event’s importance. Use facts.

Fifth Step: This is where you summarize and review what you wrote.

Copyeditor’s Suggestions:

Article Title (Relate to the Event): Marbury v. Madison

Newspaper (Make Up a Name):  

Reporter (Your Name):

Copyeditor (Your Parent or Guardian’s Name):  

Editor (Your Instructor’s Name):  

Date: 12/2/20

First Step: Hook your reader into wanting to read your article. You could tell a story or use a quote. You might relate the past to modern events or your readers’ lives. Introduce the event and basic facts like people and places. Use at least three to five sentences.

“It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.”  Once said by Chief Justice John Marshall. Marbury v. Madison was a particularly important case in American History. This is particularly important because this case was the initiation of fairness to judicial cases in America.  Judicial review is the court’s ability to review laws for constitutionality.

Second Step: Discuss one reason why the event is so important. Use facts to back up your idea.

Marbury v. Madison is so important because it was the first U.S. Supreme Court case to apply the principle of Judicial review. According to the lesson, Judicial Review is used when the Supreme Court declares that an action by Congress or the president violates the U.S. Constitution.

Third Step: Discuss a second reason for the event’s importance. Use facts

It is also the most important case because it gave perpetual power to Federal courts to void any act of the Congress that violates the U.S. constitution.  This means, the case was not only the first case to do this, but also change the rules for good and create the need of finding new ways to elect new judges. (McBride, 2006)

Fourth Step: Discuss a third reason for the event’s importance. Use facts.

Another reason why this case is particularly important is because after the decision taken in that case, the Supreme Court became a separate branch of the government, along with the Congress and the Executive Branch.  This is how now our Federal Government has three parts, The Executive (President), The Judicial (Supreme Court and other courts), and the Legislative (Senate and House of Representatives).  (Harry S. Truman, n.d.)

Fifth Step: This is where you summarize and review what you wrote.

The Marbury v. Madison case is a historical case that change many rules in the United States. The case is about President John Adams approving a law for 16 new federal judges before finishing his presidential term in 1800.  When Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801, he did not want to approve the law, so his secretary of State James Madison never announces the law to the judges. One of the judges was William Marbury, who decided to fight for his rights and asked Madison to show a cause why he should not have the job he was appointed for.  The Chief Justice John Marshall decided that James Madison was right and under the Constitution he should be protected, and that any person rights should be protected under the constitution even if it was against decisions of the president or the congress.  

Copyeditor’s Suggestions:  I think you could use more evidence or facts?  

Explanation:

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