In explaining the power of judicial review, Chief Justice John Marshall stated that the authority to interpret the law was the particular province of the courts, part of the duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.
在解释司法审查权力时，首席大法官约翰·马歇尔表示，解释法律的权力是法院的特定职权，司法部门有义务说明法律是什么。