Abstract
Since its early history the Supreme Court has repeatedly faced challenging issues pertaining to the division of constitutional authority between the federal and state legislatures, federal versus state courts, and, ultimately, the struggles related to the federal government’s efforts at maintaining supremacy over the states. Chief Justice Marshall had federalism in mind in such watershed decisions as Marbury v. Madison, Gibbons v. Ogden, and McCulloch v. Maryland. The same is true of scores of other justices, especially conservatives during the 1990s. This chapter therefore examines the Court’s overall pattern of policy-making in federalism cases from Marshall to recent years.
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See NAACP v. Alabama (1958) (freedom of association); Mapp v. Ohio (1961) (exclusionary rule); Robinson v. California (1962) (prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment); Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) (right to counsel in all felony cases); Malloy v. Hogan (1964) (right against self-incrimination); Pointer v. Texas (1965) (right to confront witnesses); Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) (right to privacy); Parker v. Gladden (1966) (right to an impartial jury); Klopfer v. North Carolina (1967) (right to a speedy trial); Washington v. Texas (1967) (right to a compulsory process for obtaining witnesses); Duncan v. Louisiana (1968) (right to a jury trial in non-petty cases); and Benton v. Maryland (1969) (right against double jeopardy).
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In Argersinger v. Hamlin (1972), the Burger Court held that the Sixth Amendment right to counsel extended to all criminal cases that included a jail sentence, in McDonald v. City of Chicago (2010) the Roberts Court contended that the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms applied to state and local governments through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and in Timbs v. Indiana (2019), the Roberts Court incorporated the Eighth Amendment prohibition on excessive fines against the states.
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See, for example, the Slaughterhouse Cases, E. C. Knight, and Hammer. In Chapter 5 also see Munn v. Illinois (1877), West Coast Hotel v. Parrish (1937), and Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff (1984).
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Habeas corpus is discussed in Chapter 2. See Ex parte Milligan (1866); Rasul v. Bush (2004).
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Lamb, C.M., Neiheisel, J.R. (2021). Federalism and Federal-State Relations. In: Constitutional Landmarks. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55575-7_4
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