; On July 18 Cochrane ordered Cockburn to "deter the enemy from a repetition of similar outrages . You are hereby required and directed to destroy and lay waste such towns and districts as you may find assailable". Cochrane instructed "You will spare merely the lives of the unarmed inhabitants of the United States" Ross and Cockburn surveyed the torching of the President's Mansion during which time a great storm arose unexpectedly out of the southeast They were confronted a number of times while on horseback by older women from around Washington City and elderly clergymen (Southern Presbyterian and Southern Baptist) with women and children who had been hiding in homes and churches They requested protection from abuse and robbery by enlisted personnel from the British Expeditionary Forces whom they accused of having tried to ransack private homes and other buildings Major-General Ross had two British soldiers put in chains for violation of his general order Throughout the events of that day a severe storm blew into the city worsening on the night of August 24 1814. Events leading to In 1803 the Supreme Court established judicial review of federal legislation in Marbury v Madison holding however that Congress could not grant unconstitutional power to the Court itself the Constitution does not explicitly state that the courts may exercise judicial review; however the notion that courts could declare laws unconstitutional was envisioned by the founding fathers Alexander Hamilton for example mentioned and expounded upon the doctrine in Federalist No 78 Originalists on the Supreme Court have argued that if the constitution does not say something explicitly it is unconstitutional to infer what it should might or could have said. Judicial review means that the Supreme Court can nullify a congressional law it is a huge check by the courts on the legislative authority and limits congressional power substantially in 1857 for example the Supreme Court struck down provisions of a congressional act of 1820 in its Dred Scott decision. At the same time the Supreme Court can extend congressional power through its constitutional interpretations, As many as thirty-five including Adams Hamilton Jefferson Madison and Jay were trained as lawyers though not all of them practiced law Some had also been local judges, Government and politics Franklin T Lambert (2003) has examined the religious affiliations and beliefs of some of the Founders Of the 55 delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention 28 were Anglicans (i.e Church of England; or Episcopalian after the American Revolutionary War was won) 21 were other Protestants and two were Roman Catholics (D Carroll and Fitzsimons). Among the Protestant delegates to the Constitutional Convention eight were Presbyterians seven were Congregationalists two were Lutherans two were Dutch Reformed and two were Methodists.
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