- "The Constitution and laws of a State, so far as they are repugnant to the Constitution and laws of the United States, are absolutely void. These States are constituent parts of the United States. They are members of one great empire — for some purposes sovereign, for some purposes subordinate."

Aaron S DeVera

Saturday, January 28th, 2012 at 12:44 am

“The Constitution and laws of a State, so far as they are repugnant to the Constitution and laws of the United States, are absolutely void. These States are constituent parts of the United States. They are members of one great empire — for some purposes sovereign, for some purposes subordinate.”

-John Marshall’s majority opinion in Cohens v. Virginia

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lololol federalism:)
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awkward… no one told the laboratories of democracy…
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