“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.”
In response to a U.S. Supreme Court opinion, President Andrew Jackson allegedly remarked “John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!” Whether he actually said it or not, the statement gets at the heart of an important constitutional question....
It is true that the Constitution does not expressly say that the federal courts have the power to strike down acts of Congress which are unconstitutional. What Article VI of the Constitution does say, however, is that (a) the Constitution is the supreme law of the...
