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On the quejlion, " Whether aftate he liable to
be sued b, a private citizen of another
ftate?"= -(Continued.)
TF then it be true, that the fover
-1 eignty of the nation hi in the
people of the nation, and the re
siduary sovereignty of each State
in the people of each State, it may
be ufeful to compare these sover
eignties with chofein Europe, that
we may thence be enabled tojudge,
whether all the prerogatives which
are allowed to the latter are also
essential to the former. There is
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OR, THE
BY E. RUSSELL. CONCORD NEWHAMPSHIRE.
ty; and from his grace and grant
derives all franchifes, immunities
and privileges —it is easy to per
ceive that such a sovereign could
not be amenable to a court of justice,
or fubjeded to judicial controui
and adual constraint. It was of
necefficy, therefore, that fuability
became incompatible with such
sovereignty. Besides, the prince
having all the executive powers,
the judgment of the courts would
in fact be only monitory, not man
datory, to him ; and a capacity to
be advised, is a diftinft thing from
a capacity to be sued. The fame
feudal ideas run through all their
jurisprudence, and constantly re
mind us of the diftinftion between
the prince and the fubjed. No
such ideqi^btain here—At the rev.
olutionghe sovereignty devalued
on the people ; and they are truly
the fovereign# of the country—but
then they are fo^ereigns without
fubjeHs (unless the African flavea
among us may be so called) —and
have none to govern but tbemfelves
—the citizens of America are equal
as fellow citizens, and as joint ten*
ants in the sovereignty.
From the differences existing be
tween feudal sovereignties and gov
ernments founded on compacts, it
necessarily follows that their ref
peftive prerogatives must allo dif
fer. 4
present question, rife from inatten
tion to the differences which subsist
between them.
It will be fufficient to observe
briefly, that the sovereignties in
Europe, and particularly in Eng
land, exist on feudal principals.
That system confiders the prince as
the sovereign, and the people as his
fubjeas —it regards his person as the
object of allegiance, and excludes
the idea of his being on an equal
footing with a fubjed, either in a
court of justice or elsewhere. That
system contemplates him as being
Sovereignty is the right to gov
ern ; a nation or state sovereign is
the person or persons in whom that
resides. In Europe the sovereign
ty is generally ascribed to the prince
—here it rests with the people—
there, the, sovereign adually ad
ministers the government ; here,
never in a single instance—our
Governors are the agents of the
people, and at most stand in the
fame relation to their sovereign, in
which regents in Europe stand to
their sovereigns. Their princes
have personal powers, dignities and
preeminences——our rulers have
none but official ; nor do they par
take in the sovereignty otherwise,
or in any other capacity, than as
private citizens.
2. The second objed of inquiry
now orefents itfelf, viz. whether
fuabifity is incompatible with state
sovereignty.
Suability—by whom ? Not a
fubjedt—for in this country there
he fountain of honor and authori-
It is agreed that one free citizen
may sue another—the obvious dic
tates of justice, and the purposes of
society demanding it.>
It is agreed that one free citizen
may sue any number on whom
process can be conveniently execut
ed—nay, in certain cases, one cit
izen may sue forty thousand ; for
where a corporation is sued, all the
members of it are axially, tho' not
personally, sued.
In this city there are forty odd
thousand free cirzens, all of whom
may be collectively sued by any in
dividual citizen. In the State of
Delaware, there are fifty odd thou
sand free citizens, and what reason
can be assigned why a free ci zen
who has demands against them
should not prosecute them I Can
the difference between forty odd
thousand, and fifty odd thousand,
make any diftinftion as to rights ?
Is it not as eafv, and as convenient
to the pubick and the parties, to
serve a summons on the Governor
and Attorney General of Delaware,
as on the Mayor or other officers
of the Corporation of Philadelphia.
Will it be said, that the fifty odd
thousand citizens in Delaware being
associated under a State governs
ment, stand in a rank so superior to
the forty odd thousand of Philadel
phia, associated under their charter,
that altho' it may become the lat
ter to meet an individual on an
equal footing in a Court of Justice,
yet that such a procedure would
not comport with the dignity of
the former ? In this land of equal
liberty, shall forty odd thousand
in one place be compelled to do
justice, and yet fifty odd thousand
in another place be privileged to
do justice only as they may think
proper ? Such objeaions would
not correspond with the equal
rights we claim—with the equali
ty we profefs to admire and main
tain, and with that popular fover
eigoty in which every citizen par
takes— Grant that the Governor
of Delaware holds an office of su
perior rank to the Mayor of Phila
delphia—they are both neverthe-
are none ; not by an interior—;or
all the citizens being at to civil
rights perfectly equal, there is not,
in that refpeft, one citizen inferior
to another.
There is at least one strong undenia
ble fad against this incompatibility—
and that is this—any one State in the
union may foe another State, in this court
—that is—all the people of one State
may sue all the people of another State.
It is plain then, that a State may befued,
and hence it as plainly follows, that fa-
Ait, and State /owereignt, are not incom
patible. (See the las page.)
left the officers of the people §
and however mo^e exalted the one
may be than the other, yet in the
opinion of those who dislike arif.
tocracy, that circumstance cannot
be a good reason for impeding the
course of justice.
If there be any such incompatibility as
is pretended, whence does it arise ? In
what does it consist ?;
"August 19.1793.]