There is a long term-significance of the Marbury versus Madison ruling. This is related to the establishment of the Court's authority as the final word on the constitutionality of legislation and executive acts. When it comes to the principle of judicial review, this held a significant role for it allowed Supreme Court to declare an act of congress unconstitutional. This specific case is a United States Supreme Court landmark case since this forms the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution. The decision in this case helped in the definition of the boundary between the constitutionally separate executive and judicial branches of the American form of government. In the Marbury v. Madison decision, the Supreme Court's power in general expanded by announcing that the 1789 law which gave the Court jurisdiction in this case was unconstitutional. In the case, Marbury thus lost, which the Court said he should have won, but, in explaining its inability to provide Marbury the remedy it said he deserved, the Court set the establishment of the principle of judicial review. Take for instance, the power to declare a law unconstitutional is stated.
