Even though Chief Justice Roberts dissented from the majority opinion, he had summarized its “dominant theme” which says “The dominant theme of the majority opinion is that the Federal Government’s intrusion into an area central to state domestic relations law applicable to its residents and citizen’s is sufficiently unusual to set off alarm bells (U.S. v. W). I think the majority goes off course, as I have said, but it is undeniable that its judgement is based on federalism”. The Court had found that the DOMA had offended the Constitution because it had represented an “unusual deviation from the usual tradition of recognizing and accepting state definitions of marriage (U.S. v. W).” The Court had stated that “By history and tradition the definition and regulation of marriage has been treated as being within the authority and realm of the separate States (Understanding