... York ratification contest. Their main concern was to show how the Constitution contained checks on Congress. Ironically, in the last half of the twentieth century federalism became the center of a Supreme Court controversy over the very racial segregation it had sanctioned in Plessy v. Ferguson. By World War II racial separation was a salient feature of the American South. THE IMPORTANCE OF ... FEDERALISM During the 1830s, nearly forty years after the writing of the U.S. Constitution and in the midst of the crisis of nullification, James Madison reaffirmed the centrality of federalism wh...

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