Source: https://thewashingtonstandard.com/the-early-years-of-the-supreme-courts-march-to-destroy-the-sovereignty-of-the-states/
Timestamp: 2019-04-22 02:07:42+00:00

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The reason Jefferson made this statement, and the reason he spent the last 23 years of his life at war with the Supreme Court [SCOTUS], was because the Supreme Court spent the first 40 years of its existence trampling the sovereignty of the states, while giving power to the federal government not granted to it in the Constitution. SCOTUS also was busy granting itself power; claiming a role for itself never granted by the Constitution – namely, the final arbiter of all constitutional questions.
A quick review of numerous cases show that our assertion here is historically correct.
The very first case came just six years after the ink had dried on the Constitution. Chisolm v. Georgia was decided by SCOTUS in 1793. The case arose in 1792, when Alexander Chisolm from South Carolina decided to sue the state of Georgia.
The defendant, Georgia, refused to appear, claiming that, as a sovereign state, it could not be sued without granting its consent to the suit. The Supreme Court ruled that Article 3, Section 2, of the Constitution abrogated the states’ sovereign immunity and granted federal courts the affirmative power to hear disputes between private citizens and states.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and even John Marshall (who would later become chief justice of the Supreme Court) had all expressed the opinion before the Constitution was ratified – that the highest authority of a state could not be called before the bar of a federal court.
Now the court – just six years later – is saying the exact opposite of what the founders understood. The Supreme Court is rewriting the Constitution through their interpretation in their issued court opinion to assume powers not granted to the federal judiciary in the Constitution.
The states and Congress successfully reined in this power-grab and act of lawlessness by the Supreme Court – temporarily that is. The federal judiciary was unimpressed and continued their attacks upon state sovereignty.
The Supreme Court arrogantly trampled the 11th Amendment just 26 years later in Cohens v. Virginia(1821). The opinion issued by SCOTUS was a political manifesto designed to humiliate the states and to strengthen the power of the federal government.
Amazingly, the man who wrote the opinion was Chief Justice John Marshall. Marshall had declared prior to the Constitution being ratified in 1787, “I hope that no gentleman will think that a state will be called at the bar of a federal court.” Cohens v. Virginia exposed his hypocrisy or his collusion with Hamilton and the nationalists.
In case after case, for the first 40 years of its existence, SCOTUS wrote power for itself not granted by the Constitution and trampled the sovereignty of the states. United States v. Peters (1809); Fletcher v. Peck (1810); Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee (1816); McCulloch v. Maryland (1819); Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819); Cohens v. Virginia (1821); Gibbons v. Ogden (1824); and Brown v. Maryland (1827) – all court opinions issued by SCOTUS that attacked, removed, and undermined state sovereignty while empowering SCOTUS and the federal government with unconstitutional powers.
And they have continued this march to secure their unconstitutional powers all the way up to our day. We are up against a tyrant that has spent 200 years strengthening itself.
What the Supreme Court did in those early years did not happen without a fight. There was a massive battle. Good men confronted the federal tyrant. And contrary to popular opinion, this war is not over. We must fight in our day.
Men will forbear and so we should when able. But there comes a point when men should not forbear. There comes a point where forbearance is cowardice. There comes a point where forbearance becomes sin and immorality. Americans have long reached that point. We no longer have the convenience of acting indifferent towards the unjust and immoral actions of the Supreme Court.
In a true federalism – which is what our founders established – there is no final arbiter of constitutional questions; there is no oligarchy to which all other branches of government must bow and which tramples representative government. That is the beauty of checks and balances. That is the beauty of federalism.
The states must assert their sovereignty.
Matthew Trewhella is the pastor of Mercy Seat Christian Church (http://MercySeat.net) and author of the book The Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrates (http://DefyTyrants.com). He and his wife Clara have eleven children and reside in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area.

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