Word: overleaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legislative acts the "judicial review" principle later adopted for the U.S. Supreme Court (Marbury v. Madison, 1803) by Chief Justice John Marshall of Virginia-was laid out in 1782 by Justice George Wythe with the new Court's very first decision: "If the whole legislature should attempt to overleap the bounds, prescribed to them by the people, I, pointing to the Constitution, will say to them, 'Here is the limit of your authority; and hither shall you go, but no further...
...finished picture does not altogether overleap convention; it looks staged, and has a flattering slickness. Yet its virtues far outweigh its faults. The Walnut Street backdrop gives a fresh-air feeling to what would otherwise be a Vulcan's cave. The young apprentice nicely complements Lyon's robust maturity. His big feet spread and firmly planted, his heavy arm and hand holding the hammer with negligent authority. Blacksmith Pat Lyon himself easily dominates the huge canvas. He seems truly at home in it-as the workingman has long since come to be in the nation...