DBQ Essay: The Supreme Court

The Supreme Court should be able to overturn unconstitutional laws that Congress has passed. There are many reasons to give the Supreme Court this power, first we need someone to enforce the fact that no law should violate the Constitution. Next, it helps balance the three branches of government, and lastly the Constitution puts judicial power into the Supreme Court and inferior courts. This power will stop substandard laws from getting passed, and will protect the structure of our government that is extremely based on the Constitution. First, the Supreme Court needs to be able to decided whether laws are constitutional or not, because we need a part of the government to do that specific job. The Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution states that the “Constitution, … , shall be the supreme law of the land” (Doc. G), and it is the basis that our government and country were based upon. No law should able to violate the Constitution therefore we need someone to decide what is constitutional and what isn’t. No legislative act or law can go against the Constitution, and if it does it is not a legitimate law (Doc. C). …show more content…
The Judicial Branch is in charge of interpreting laws and the Constitution, this helps keep checks & balances, it stop Congress from passing bad laws, or just any law that they want to. Alexander Hamilton put it this way, the legislative branch writes the rules that we abide by, while the executive branch “holds the sword of the community” by enforcing the laws (Doc. B). All the judicial branch does is judge whether laws are constitutional, to avoid having a law that violates the Constitution, so it doesn’t pose any harm to the government. It helps keep balance between all the branches and to keep everything