The Court was in various locations before the Civil War, and it was housed in the Old Senate Chamber from 1861 to 1935. The Court really didn’t have a fully functional home until 1935.
Marshall was on the $500 bill, while Salmon P. John Marshall is only one of two justices to appear on U.S. Here are some interesting facts about the Court over the years:ġ.
The Supreme Court then became more of an institution we’d recognize today under Chief Justice John Marshall’s tenure as the Supreme Court’s leader for more than three decades. The justices, when they met, were in the Old City Hall in Philadelphia and then the Capitol building’s basement in Washington. The early days of the Court were certainly low-key. The Act set the intial number of Supreme Court justices at six: one Chief Justice and five Associate Justices. According to Article III, “The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.” The details of the Court’s composition and that of the lower courts were left to Congress, which debated the Judiciary Act for several months and passed the final measure on September 24, 1789. The Supreme Court itself was established as part of the Constitution.
It was back on this day in 1789 that Congress passed the act that officially created the federal judiciary system that included the Supreme Court and other federal courts.
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