Contrary to what you've been taught the Supreme Court is not the final arbiter of what is Constitutional and what is not. When in 1850 when the Supreme Court ruled that the Fugitive Slave Law was Constitutional the Supreme Court Justices were wrong. Many of the legislatures of the Northern States passed personal liberty laws which nullified the Fugitive Slave Law. This act of defiance illustrates quite clearly that the states have a right to overturn the Supreme Court and any of their decisions.
When John Adams signed the Aliens and Seditions Act, he violated the First Amendment. At the same time, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson issued the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions. They promoted the idea that the states and the people were the final arbiters of what is and what is not Constitutional.
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