Argument: In the Case Rhode-Island Against Massachusetts (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Argument: In the Case Rhode-Island Against Massachusetts

They lay it down that a controversy between States, concerning jurisdiction and boundaries is political not judicial in its character. The Judicial Courts can take cognizance only of controversies strictly judicial, not political in their nature. That the present controversy concerns jurisdiction and sov ereignty, and is therefore out of the judicial juris diction of this Court, and cannot be acted upon by it without the assumption of political power. And.

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