POL SCI 145E Lecture 4: Lecture 1_22_2019
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Only case struck down before civil war. Maine comes in as free state and the states that are later admitted will be free states and the ones below the line will be slaves stated. Shows supreme court is superior to state supreme court. Master slave hierarchy (has to do with federalism) 2 brothers selling lottery tickets from the congress. Supreme court said it has to be able to enforce its own laws in the state. The two subjects mentioned in constitution is religion and commerce. They bring up hierarchies through vested rights - any right you had at a given time that was given to you legally can not be taken away. It"s still a concept but once we overturned the hierarchies it gets weighed against reasonable public purposes. If you took that away from them it would have effected all of their current employees.
