Limits to Federal Judicial Power Over the States
Many people are aware of how the states have given away through the amendment process their sovereignty well protected in the original Constitution. But what is not so well known is what has happened through the judiciary process. When the states ratified the Constitution it established a Supreme court and gave congress the ability to form lower courts. But it limited their judicial authority to issues involving the federal government and those between states or between citizens of more than one state. The judicial authority did not extend to individual states, their laws and constitutions.- Wednesday, April 3, 2019