"The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the
immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect
themselves with the feelings, the affections, the municipal institutions,
and the internal arrangements of the whole population. They possess, too,
the immediate administration of justice in all cases, civil and criminal,
which concern the property, personal rights, and peaceful pursuits of
their
own citizens."
-- Joseph Story (Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833)
Reference: Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 191.
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