3/24/15

Lesson#61

AIM: What were the accomplishments of Thomas Jefferson as president?

DO NOW: Read chapter 9 in “The New Nation” and answer the following questions.

1)     What case is John Marshall famous for?

2)     What does “Judicial review” mean?

I)                  Thomas Jefferson wins the election of 1800

a)     Jefferson was elected president in the 1800 election.

b)    He was the first democratic-republican president

c)     Jefferson believed in something called “Laissez Fair” economics. This means that government should play a very small role in the economic life of a country.

d)    Jefferson believed in limiting the power of the federal government.

II)               Jefferson and the Supreme Court.

a)     When John Adams lost the presidency and before he left office he appointed John Marshall to be the chief justice of the Supreme Court.

b)    Prior to Marshall the Supreme Court was not as important as the other two branches. Marshall made the Supreme Court important.

c)     The case that allowed Marshall to do this was Marbury V. Madison. This case was the case that gave the Supreme Court the right of Judicial Review. This means that the Supreme Court has the right to decide if a law passed by congress or an act of the president was legal or not.

Home Work: Page 270 questions 1-3