And
by governance on a daily basis, mean from the how from kings, aristocrats, down through every layer of bureaucracy till you get to your local tax
collector, what / why / how these people ran the government administration on a day to day basis, from dealing with a rival city who recently stole one of your
citizens crops, to pirates interfering with trade on the Mediterranean, to drought, city administration, what to do with tax money, neighborly disputes, superstition, weather, crime, theft, laws and battles of ideology, to political rivalries and infighting, to a foreigner spreading strange religious ideas in the city (or dealing with somebody accused of a crime they claim they did not commit), I mean everything and everything these officials may have dealt with, daily, and how they changed over time.
Until the passage of this act, no original action
by a
citizen of any state against a
citizen of the same state could be maintained in a national court, at law or in equity, for injuries arising from the illegal exaction of duties
by collectors of revenue.