It is useful because it is honest; because it leaves not even the most obscure and friendless citizen without means
of obtaining justice from a neighbouring State; because it obviates
occasions of quarrels between States
on account
of the claims
of their respective citizens; because it recognizes and strongly rests
on this great moral
truth that justice is the same whether due from one man or a million, or from a million to one man; because it teaches and greatly appreciates the value
of our free republican national government, which places all our citizens
on an equal footing, and enables each and every
of them to obtain justice without any danger
of being overborne by the weight and
number of their opponents; and because it brings into action and enforces this great and glorious principle — that the people are the sovereign
of this country, and consequently that fellow citizens and joint sovereigns can not be degraded by appearing with each other in their own courts to have their controversies determined.