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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (11131)	7/10/2004 5:21:30 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Hylton v. United States, 1796 Here's more from the web: One of the earlier illustrations of the Supreme Court's exercise of its judicial review powers was in Hylton v. United States, a 1796 Supreme Court decision wherein the Court upheld a federal tax on carriages. Indeed, flexing a judicial right to hold laws unconstitutional predates the passage of the Constitution as some Colonial judges were known to have invalidated state laws on the grounds that they violated a state constitutional provision. constitutioncenter.org