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To: Future Snake Eater

Can you explain this ruling for us? Thanks.


137 posted on 01/15/2013 5:09:33 AM PST by FR_addict
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To: FR_addict
McCulloch v. Maryland

My memory is a little hazy on it, but I thought it was the Supreme Court case that established the Constitution as the supreme law of the land and that states couldn't usurp it with their own internal laws.

According to Wikipedia, I was almost right: "state action may not impede valid constitutional exercises of power by the Federal government." Of course, this decision seems to skirt the 10th Amendment, so...

Maybe I'm thinking of another SCOTUS case?

139 posted on 01/15/2013 5:17:05 AM PST by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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