Sorry to say that the weather forecast for this weekend is not so good--highs in the 60s, clouds, and a chance of rain. So maybe this isn't the best possible moment for a walking tour, but the Weekend section of last week's Washington Post got my attention by highlighting an iPod-based tour of Embassy Row, arguably the most beautiful part of the city. Read all about it here. And here's a link to the Audio Tour Podcast, narrated by Cokie Roberts.
That handsome building in the above photo? That's the Embassy of Ukraine at 3350 M Street, N.W. It's also the house in which William Marbury was living when he sought a writ of mandamus requiring the Secretary of State, James Madison, to deliver a commission appointing Marbury, a loyal Federalist, a justice of the peace in D.C. The apparently insignificant lawsuit culminated in Chief Justice John Marshall's assertion, in Marbury v. Madison (1803), of the Supreme Court's power to declare Acts of Congress unconstitutional, and therefore null.
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