<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Superseded by </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Fourteenth Amendment </Td> </Tr> <P> Barron v. Baltimore, 32 U.S. (7 Pet .) 243 (1833), is a landmark United States Supreme Court case in 1833, which helped define the concept of federalism in US constitutional law . The Court established a precedent that the Bill of Rights did not apply to the state governments . </P> <P> John Barron and John Craig, who co-owned a profitable wharf in the Baltimore harbor, sued the mayor for damages . They claimed that when the city had diverted the flow of streams while it was engaging in street construction, it created mounds of sand and earth near his wharf, making the water too shallow for most vessels . </P>

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