The Supreme Court: The Power of the Supreme Court will allow them to shape government, in almost any form they wish. The fear is that the Court will begin to get its hands on state legal issues that do not concern them; however, even now, there is a strict procedure for how cases are heard in the Supreme Court. If a person wants their case to be argued at the Supreme Court level, they must first go through all of the state's appellate procedures and go to their state's supreme court or court of final appeal. Hamilton explains the importance of procedures as it relates to the justice system and the importance of the balance between the state and federal justice system, in Federalist 82, "for not granting the state courts a right of jurisdiction in such cases , can hardly be considered an error. the curtailment of pre-existing authority…that the state courts would have concurrent jurisdiction in all cases arising under the laws of the Union. As federalists, we understand that there must be rules to govern the justice system. The fear of the Anti-Federalists is baseless. The Supreme Court only considers cases that present a constitutional question or conflict between federal governments, as noted in the

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