Dual federalism also calls for a very strict reading of the Necessary and Proper Clause as well as focusing on the idea that the Constitution is an agreement between the states and the federal government. ... Justice Marshall's interpretation of the Constitution was premised on the notion that the national government was the creation of the people and not the states and that Article VI established federal law as the supreme law of the land (Supremacy Clause). ... His loose interpretation of the Necessary and Proper Clause and most obviously, the creation of the Supremacy Clause are fu...

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Jefferson also believed in strict Constitutional interpretation and argued that unless specified in the Constitution, the federal government had no authority. ... In contrast to Jefferson, he believed in a "loose " interpretation of the Constitution. ...

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