marbury's commission. the jefferson administration was putting a lot of political pressure on the court which was publicly opposed to him to not deliver the commission and the supreme court end ed up agreeing, it found using this method of judicial review that it did not have the power that congress had granted it to beside this kind of case so it is another example of tension between the branches, each branch with its unconstitutional interpretation and not necessarily that the supreme court won just a balance of power between the president and congress that made this law. >> ironically marbury versus madison, far from being an assertion of judicial supremacy was an act of judicial restraint they held against their own authority saying the idea that the supreme court could award this commission >> you have a wonderfully rich discussion of abraham lincoln and central importance in our constitutional the understanding, that most contributed to his legacy of constitutional figure, >> i could talk about abrah