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The Constitution of the United States of America

Note 29 — ARTICLE IV

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Justice Johnson, dissenting in Mills v. Duryee, 7 Cr. 481 (1813), had said: "There are certain eternal principles of justice which never ought to be dispensed with, and which Courts of justice never can dispense with but when compelled by positive statute. One of those is, that jurisdiction cannot be justly exercised by a State over property not within the reach of its process, or over persons not owing them allegiance or not subjected to their jurisdiction, by being found within their limits." Ibid. 486.

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