Hayburn’s Case in the United States

Hayburn’s Case 2 Dallas 409 (1792)

United States Constitution

According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled 537 HAYBURN’s CASE 2 Dallas 409 (1792) Hayburn’s Case was regarded in its time and has been regarded by many historians since as the first case in which a federal court held an act of Congress unconstitutional. Congress in 1791 directed the circuit courts to rule on the validity of pension claims made
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