by William Patterson

“ THAT all acts of the United States in Congress made by virtue and in pursuance of the powers hereby and by the Articles of Confederation vested in them, and all treaties made and ratified under the authority of the United States shall be the supreme law of the respective states so far forth as those acts or treaties shall relate to the said states or their citizens, and that the Judiciary of the several states shall be bound thereby in their decisions, any thing in the respective laws of the individual states to the contrary notwithstanding ”

“ THAT a citizen of one state committing an offense in an-other state of the Union, shall be deemed guilty of the same offense as if it had been committed by a citizen of the state in which the offense was committed. ”

“ WHEREAS in Congress distinct executive and judiciary powers and two branches of the legislature as a check is less necessary that in the states, and besides, the delegations of the different States are checks on each other;
WHEREAS the people at large do not complain of Congress; what they wish is that Congress may have more power ”