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Contents.
Essay. | Page | |
i. the Fœderal courts have no authority to enforce the payment of their debts by the individual States, | No. LXXXI. | 567 |
ii. the original jurisdiction of the inferior courts considered, | 568 | |
iii. the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court considered, | 568 | |
i. the meaning of the term "appellate" discussed, | 568 | |
ii. a review of matters of fact by the Supreme Court not to be implied as a necessary consequence, | 569 | |
iii. the motives which probably influenced the Convention in relation to this particular provision, | 570 | |
iv. the Congress will have authority to restrain the Supreme Court from reexamining matters of fact, | 570 | |
v. concluding remarks, | 571 | |
e. the jurisdiction of the State courts on Fœderal questions considered, | LXXXII. | 571 |
i. the individual States "will retain all preëxisting authorities which may not be exclusively delegated to the Fœderal head," | 572 | |
i. in what that "exclusive delegation" consists, | 572 | |
ii. "the State courts will retain the jurisdiction they now have, unless it appears to be taken away by exclusive delegation," | 572 | |
i. "the concurrent jurisdiction of the State tribunals the most natural and defensible construction" of the Constitution, | 573 | |
ii. this is "only clearly applicable to those descriptions of causes of which the State courts had previous cognizance," | 573 | |
iii. the decision of causes arising upon a particular regulation may be committed by the Congress to the Fœderal courts solely, if it desires to do so, | 573 | |
i. this will not divest the State courts of any part of their primitive jurisdiction, further than may relate to an appeal, | 573 | |
ii. nor, except where expressly excluded, of their right to take cognizance of the causes to which those particular regulations may give birth, | 574 | |
iv. the relation which will subsist between the State and the Fœderal courts in instances of concurrent jurisdiction, | 574 |