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  • Constitution Sunday: “Brutus” XI

    New York Journal

    January 31, 1788

    The Constitution’s creation of the Supreme Court raised many questions about how such a court would operate. But an anonymous author, Brutus, laid out what was likely to come from the Court, and this author described—much of it with remarkable precision—what would indeed happen to the Court in the coming decades and centuries.

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  • The Responsiveness of the Courts

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    Map of Baltimore, showing construction and location of Barron’s wharf.

    The Nullification Crisis had an impact on the jurisprudence of American law, changing the interaction of the federal government with the states.

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