CONSTITUTIONALISM IN THE STREETS - Columbia Law School.docVIP

The Founders, Federalism, and Farce: A Litigious Sailor and the Conflict over Constitutionalism in the Early Republic (Short Version) Gary D. Rowe UCLA School of Law On March 25, 1809, at the northwest corner of Philadelphias Seventh and Arch Streets, federal and state forces clashed for the first time in the young republics history. From the vantage point of the 1790s, such an incident would have appeared sadly inevitable. In the wake of the intensely controversial Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, and in the aftermath of the disputed election of 1800, armed resistance by state militias to