[JeffAtlanta]

Others, such as President Andrew Jackson and Chief Justice John Marshall, believed that the federal government had authority over the states.

You seem totally confused. You seem to want to lump John Marshall into the "states rights guys" but then you post a information that says the exact opposite.

John Marshall was a strong federalist. That is common knowledge. To try to lump him into "one of the states rights guys" is idiocy.

[tpaine]

You seem totally confused. You seem to want to lump John Marshall into the "states rights guys" but then you post a information that says the exact opposite.
John Marshall was a strong federalist. That is common knowledge. To try to lump him into "one of the states rights guys" is idiocy.

Here is 'states rights' idiocy.

Check out Barron v Baltimore in my previous post - in a decision from John Marshall's court in 1833 expressly ruling that the Bill of Rights do not apply to the states.

Barron v Baltimore is notorious as a questionable ruling by a senile Marshall trying to 'save the union'.

The erroneous Barron decision was nullified by the ratification of the 14th; -- even though it was already, in effect null & void, - as it ignored the supremacy clause of Article VI.