In which case did a Supreme Court Justice make this famous proclamation: “an act that is repugnant to the Constitution is void” and that “[i]t is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is”?

A) Marbury v. Madison
B) Madison v. United States
C) Marshall v. Madison
D) Brown v. Board of Education


A) Marbury v. Madison

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