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Answer is 2 sentences each in a 5th graders response
What did President Thomas Jefferson do about Marbury's commission?
. What did Marbury do about
Jefferson's actions?

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When Thomas Jefferson became president, he told his Secretary of State, James Madison, not to deliver William Marbury’s job paper (the commission). He refused to let Marbury take the job Marbury had been promised.

William Marbury went to the Supreme Court and asked the judges to order Jefferson’s secretary to give him the commission. He tried to use the courts to get the job he said was rightfully his.