Of Judicial Constructions of the Power of Congress
NOTES
1. 2 Cranch, 358.
2. 3 Cranch, 63.
3. 1 Paine's Rep. 189. 629.
4. 5 Cranch, 289.
5. 8 Cranch, 431.
6. 2 Wheaton, 396.
7. In Conrad v. The Atlantic Insurance Company, 1 Peters' Rep. 386. the case of The1usson v. Smith was explained, or rather essentially overruled, in respect ro the effect of the priority of the United Stares over judgment creditors; and such creditors are justly and properly restored to their right, to be satisfied out of the debtor's land bound by the judgment, in preference to the mere prerogative priority of the United State.
8.Watkins v.Otis, 2 Pickering, 102.
9. 4 Wheaton, 316.
10. 9 Wheaton, 859, 860,
11. 3 Dallas 171,
12. 5 Wheaton, 317.
13. 8 Wheaton, 543.
14. 6 Cranch, 142, 143.
15. Acts of 7th of August, 1689. January 14th, 1805.,March 3d, 1817. February 16th, 1819. April 24th, 1820.
16. 7 Cranch, 481
17. 3 Wheaton, 234.
18.Shumway v. Stillman, 4 Cowen, 292
19. 6 Wheaton, 129. In Thurber v. Blackbourne, 1 N.H. Rep. 242, it was held that nil debet was a good plea to debt on a judgment of another state, when it did not appear by the record that the defendant had notice of the suit.
20. See official documents of the state of Connecticut, August, 1812.
21. 8 Mass. Rep. 554.
22. 5 Wheaton, 1.
23. Johnson, J.
24. It was decided in Martin v. Mott, 12 Wheaton, 19 that it belonged exclusively to the President of the United States to judge when the military must be called out.
25. 5 Wheaton, 1
26. 3 Serg. & Rawle, 169.
27. In February, 1827 after an animated debate, the House of Representatives, by a vote of 101 to 67, voted to appropriate $30,000 for the continuation of surveys of routes for roads and canals.
