Yet you say that it didn't. That it instead expanded the federal government powers. Specifically that federal courts could enforce it upon the states' dealings with their own citizens.
The anti-federalists would have to have been fools not to realize that- if it were true.
Yet you say that it didn't. That it instead expanded the federal government powers. Specifically that federal courts could enforce it upon the states' dealings with their own citizens.
I did not say that it didn't blunt those effects from the FEDERAL government. That's what they were trying to do.
Mason was no fool, and he saw that the Federal Judiciary had been given too much power over the States by the Supremacy clause. That's partly why he dissented.