Their focus demonstrates that the nature of existence is contingent not merely on the
cognizance of being, but more so on the relationships
between individuals and the collectives they form.
It is extended also to controversies
between a State and foreign states; and if the argument taken from the order of designation were good, it would be meant here that this Court might have
cognizance of a suit where a State is plaintiff, and some foreign state a defendant, but not where a foreign state brings a suit against a State.