Read and briefly summarize the short excerpt from Story's "Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (1833)"  arguing for judicial supremacy.

https://lonang.com/library/reference/story-commentaries-us-constitution/sto-304/

2. Read and briefly summarize the short excerpt form Upshur's "A Brief Enquiry into the Nature and Character of our Federal Government" arguing for state sovereignty in questions of constitutionality. (Read all chapters)

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Brief_Enquiry_into_the_Nature_and_Character_of_our_Federal_Government

Questions to be answered in your essay along with a summary of each excerpt.

1. What were the constitutional bases for judicial supremacy and state interposition/nullification?
2. Imagine yourself as an American citizen in the Jacksonian Era reading these definitive arguments for the two camps of constitutional interpretation—-which argument would you find most convincing?  Why?
3. Now, looking back with a 21st-century perspective, is your answer the same? Explain Why or why not

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