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Article I Section 10
The Constitution of the United States of America was signed. No state shall take the duties and priveledges assigned to Congress. -
Federalist v. Antifederalist
The Federalists argued for a stronger national government. The Antifederalists supported a stronger state government. -
Tenth Amendment
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people. -
Supreme Court Case Gibbons v. Ogden
Gibbons v. Ogden
This case demonstrates the extent of the federal government over the state government. In this case the state of New York gave monopoly rights for steamboat travel to the Livingston Company, later joined by Ogden. However, another man Gibbons also had the means and wished to have a ferry service that went from New Jersey to New York. The monopoly prevented him from doing so. Angered by this Gibbons sued and won the case on the fact that he had a coastal license granted to him by -
Nullification Crisis
The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by South Carolina's 1832 Ordinance of Nullification. This ordinance declared by the power of the State that the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and therefore null and void within the sovereign boundaries of South Carolina -
Private Property Rights Protection Act of 2012
No State or political subdivision of a State shall exercise its power of eminent domain, or allow the exercise of such power by any person or entity to which such power has been delegated, over property to be used for economic development or over property that is used for economic development within 7 years after that exercise, if that State or political subdivision receives Federal economic development funds during any fiscal year in which the property is so used or intended to be used.
