Marbury v. Madison in Akoma Ntoso

The Supreme Court’s 1803 decision in Marbury v. Madison, as William Cranch reported it, marked up as an Akoma Ntoso judgment and styled in the manner of an early American law report. Akoma Ntoso is the OASIS standard for legal and legislative documents.

How it was made

The XML was generated by Claude for Grant Vergottini from the Harvard Caselaw Access Project’s text of the report, which keeps its 1803 spelling, and includes the arguments and testimony as well as Chief Justice Marshall’s opinion. The text is verbatim, so that text’s scanning errors remain, and the README lists the ones found. The section labels are editorial. This is a modern rendition, not a facsimile.

Files

• marbury-v-madison.xml: the Akoma Ntoso document
• marbury-v-madison.css: the stylesheet that renders it