Note 348 — Chapter IX · THE LAW OF STATE COMITY, TERRITORIES AND POSSESSIONS
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Idem. In Brown v. Walker, 161 U. S., 591 (1896), (i. e., five years before the decision in Downes v. Bidwell), the Court declared: “The object of the first eight amendments to the Constitution was to incorporate into the fundamental law of the land certain principles of natural justice which had become permanently fixed in the jurisprudence of the mother country, etc.”