ugh the Taney Court tended "to give the benefit of the doubt to . . . state power far more than had been the case in Marshall's day . . .," Taney and his fellow Justices "were firm believers in national supremacy when there was a clear conflict between state and federal power," such as when a state tried to tax the salaries of federal officials.
Taney professed an aversion to the Court becoming involved in 'political questions,' such as whether the state of Rhode Island was constituted in accordance with the Constitutional guaranty of republican government, Luther v. Borden (1849), or a state governor had improperly r
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