[Huck]

The Congress passed the Judiciary Act of 1789, which elaborated and specified the judicial powers:

http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/8.htm

They actually did a bad job of putting the specific powers of the judiciary into the Constitution. But this act shows clearly that appellate review of questions of constitutionality was one such power, no?

[jammer]

Thank you. I assume you are referring specifically to 25. I had read that before, but not carefully enough. Question: why did it take until 1803 for the Court to assert that doctrine? Because no other case had come before it where it could be asserted?

I am glad to know that review was not "unilaterally" declared. Even so, I am going to have to read and digest that last sentence, also, for a while.