Martin v. Hunter's Lessee gave the Supreme Court authority over state courts. In this case, In 1816 Thomas Martin inherited land from his uncle, Lord Fairfax, a brutish loyalist during the revolutionary war. But Virginia had taken the land during the war and gave it to David Hunter. Martin sued for the land after his uncle's death in a Virginia state court and was deemed the rightful owner of the land. Hunter then appealed to the Virginia Court of Appeals, which ruled in favor of him. Then, of course, Martin went to the Supreme Court who agreed that the long belonged to Thomas Martin, however, The Virginia Court of Appeals didn’t obey the Supreme Court's ruling, of federal which was based on the Judiciary Act, which said the Supreme Court could review decisions of state supreme courts. It argued that, that was unconstitutional, and that states had final say over federal law. The supreme courts ruled that it was, that Article III of the Constitution, let’s Congress decide whether the Supreme Court can review state decisions of federal law.  They ruled that the into federal laws is left to one group as a whole, the Supreme Court and therefore the Virginia Court had to carry out the ruling in favor of Martin. Prior to this case, courts operated on dual judicial sovereignty, which means federal and state courts are two separate things, neither held precedent over the other.Martin v. Hunter's Lessee shows the dynamism of the Constitution as it applies to Federalism because it declared that the supreme court (federal courts) has superiority over civil matters in state courts, pertaining to federal law.