The federal government that used state officials to help get the army drafted, and i think its more important than people realize. Host you said the court misconstrued previous precedents. Guest thats true, although its interesting enough that the majority opinion did not cite either of the two cases that would have been provided better support for its holding than any case they did cite. One was precivil war case that had basically held there was an rule and Justice Marshal in a later opinion overruled that case and said it was the product of an other part of our history that has long gone by. It is precivil war and pre14th pre14th amendment. Host this is a big theme that runs throughout the book in your view the civil war and reconstruction amendments that followed it transformed the relation between federal and state power and gave the federal government broad power to protect minorities and so of national problems. You object in many of these cases that some of your colleagues on t