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The growth of national power through much of our history can be traced to the early decisions of Chief Justice John Marshall, notably McCulloch v. Maryland (90) and Gibbons v. Ogden (91); the constitutional consequences of the Civil War, during which the southern states sought to declare federal laws void within their borders, an unconstitutional process called nullification (91); the establishment of national supremacy in economics with the New Deal; and the new national responsibilities in protecting citizens’ rights that have been associated with the civil rights movement.