The topic of
discussion for this Constitution Monday comes from Article III, Section 2, and
Clause 1: “The judicial Power shall
extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the
Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under
their Authority … between Citizens of different States ….” This provision was put in place in order that
citizens of different states would have a “neutral arena” for their case to be
heard.
“One of the greatest
deficiencies under the Articles of Confederation was the lack of a federal
judiciary to handle problems of this type.
When citizens of different states had a matter to be adjudicated,
neither felt he could get a fair trial anywhere but in his own state, and thus
the matter could not be satisfactorily settled” (W. Cleon Skousen in The Making of America – The Substance and
Meaning of the Constitution, p. 604).
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