Author Question: Under Chief Justice John Marshall, the early Supreme Court generally A) preserved states' rights. ... (Read 26 times)

oliviahorn72 · **on:** Sep 3, 2018

Under Chief Justice John Marshall, the early Supreme Court generally

A) preserved states' rights.
B) lessened trade powers between the states.
C) issued conflicting decisions about the balance between national and state power.
D) remain silent about federalism issues.
E) increased national power.

Question 2

From the 1930s to the mid-1990s, the Supreme Court

A) tended to support expansion of national authority.
B) considered issues of federalism to be political questions beyond the scope of the Court's jurisdiction.
C) consistently resisted the expansion of national power.
D) wavered unpredictably on the issue of national authority.
E) issued decisions that made the division of powers in federalism difficult to ascertain.