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The US Supreme Court is the original constitutional court. It invented the idea that courts can rule on the constitutionality of laws and governmental actions (in Marbury v. Madison, 1803).

Some more recent constitutions have established a separate court that only rules on constitutional issues, but the US doesn't have that.




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