1. The case determined the power of the Supreme Court to rule on the constitutionality of laws.
American courts have the power to strike down laws, statutes, and some government actions that they find to violate the Constitution of the United States.
2. Southerners were critical of the northern economy based on slave labor.
Southerners thought that the North's wage labor system was a bad system, but they also thought it was good for them.
