Note 2
THE FEDERALIST. No. LXXXII.
Section 8, Article 1.
… countenance the affirmative. The plan of the convention, in the first place, authorizes the national legislature “to constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court.”[2] It declares, in the next place, that “the JUDICIAL POWER of the United States SHALL BE VESTED in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as Congress shall ordain and establish”; and it then proceeds to enumerate the cases to which this judicial powe…
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