The Federal Judiciary

Federal courts have accumulated their power under the rubric of judicial review. Judicial review involves a court overturning an act of congress or f the executive branch on the grounds that the act in question contravenes the federal constitution. At the time of the constitutional convent in 17 87, there were only a handful of instances in which state courts overruled legislatures for violating state constitutions. Nowhere in the constitution has the federal judiciary expressly given the authority to interject itself in every facet of federal and state ration.