[Download] "Edward M. Livermore and David B. Sexton, Appellants v. Thomas A. Jenckes" by United States Supreme Court * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Edward M. Livermore and David B. Sexton, Appellants v. Thomas A. Jenckes
- Author : United States Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 01, 1858
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 86 KB
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First. This case is one of State jurisdiction. It has arisen out of the conflict of the laws of the States of New York and Rhode Island. These laws relate to matters of internal administration, over which Congress, under the Constitution, has no control whatever. The States have not seen fit to lodge in Congress power to harmonize the conflict of their internal systems. Such a power, if lodged in the Federal Government, would necessarily involve the right to carry the laws and systems of polity prevailing in one State within the territorial limits of another. It would aim a blow at the integrity of the State sovereignties. Whatever may be thought of the necessity or wisdom of such an accession of authority to the Union, it is undisputed that no such grant has been made by the Federal Constitution. Story's Conflict of Laws, sec. 18.