Supremacy clause

The Court did not agree that the Supremacy Clause and historical experience could be applied to local sheriffs. The justices pointed out that any precedent applied only to state judges, not law enforcement officers. They found no evidence, at least until recent times, that Congress had asserted a power to commandeer local officials. Further, None of [the statements... 

The indiscreet zeal of the adversaries to the Constitution, has betrayed them into an attack on this part of it also, without which it would have been evidently and radically defective. To be fully sensible of this we need only suppose for a moment, that the supremacy of the State Constitutions had been left compleat by a saving clause in their favor. 

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