Report and resolutions concerning the citation of the Commonwealth, to answer a complaint before the Supreme Court of the United States
By: printed by order of the House of Delegates
Publisher: Printed by Thomas Ritchie
Published: 1821
Place of publication: Richmond
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: United States; United States. Supreme Court; Judicial supremacy
Notes: A discussion of the relative powers of the federal and state government, and a denial of the right of the Supreme Court of the United States to examine and correct a judgment rendered by the state courts of Virginia in a case arising from an act of Congress empowering the corporation of the city of Washington to establish lotteries for effecting the improvement of the city, and the consequent vending and distributiong of lottery tickets within the jurisdictional limits of Virginia, contrary to the laws of the state.

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