2. Which of the following excerpts from the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Marbury v. Madison best states the historical significance of that decision? (a) "The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers is abolished if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed and if acts prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation." (b) "This original and supreme will organizes the government, and assigns to different departments their respective powers." (c) "That the people have an original right to establish for their future government such principles as, in their opinion, shall most conduce to their own happiness, is the basis on which the whole American fabric has been erected." (d) "It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. Those who apply the rule to particular cases must of necessity expound and interpret that rule" %3D

2. Which of the following excerpts from the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Marbury v. Madison best states the historical significance of that decision? (a) "The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers is abolished if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed and if acts prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation." (b) "This original and supreme will organizes the government, and assigns to different departments their respective powers." (c) "That the people have an original right to establish for their future government such principles as, in their opinion, shall most conduce to their own happiness, is the basis on which the whole American fabric has been erected." (d) "It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. Those who apply the rule to particular cases must of necessity expound and interpret that rule" %3D