April 12, 2024
States Rights vs Federal Power
We talk about the tension between states rights and federal power. How does a court decide which to lean more heavily on? Articles referenced: For additional description of how state laws impacted the travel and work of African-Americans or...
We talk about the tension between states rights and federal power. How does a court decide which to lean more heavily on?
Articles referenced:
For additional description of how state laws impacted the travel and work of African-Americans or freed slaves in the years before the Civil War, see e.g., Kate Masur, Until Justice Be Done, America's First Civil Rights Movement From the Revolution to Reconstruction, (N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, 2021), 123-126 and 157-59).
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