How did congress try to balance power to state and federal courts????
Congress did not “balance the power” to state and federal courts. The constitution defined the boundaries of jurisdiction between federal government and state government, and thus the jurisdiction of their separate courts. The constitution (Article 3 section 1) also gave Congress the authority to create lower federal courts (district courts ,etc) So the way it works in reality is that the Constitution delineate what the scope of jurisdiction for federal courts would be Article 3, section 2) and Congress then created the courts needed to hear case arising from that jurisdiction. First remember that after the Declaration of Independence, each state was a sovereign state with all the powers and jurisdiction over its territory and citizens. Those functions that England and its Parliament used to do devolved to each state. When the Articles of Confederation were written, it retained all of those powers and jurisdictions to each state, even while it created a central government. This proved
