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62 defiance to the Constitution; so anomalous in its characteristics, that it regards as brutum fulmen grave penalties, civil and criminal, attached by the nation to those State agencies which disregard the sanctity of this great fundamental law; so universal, that with permissive passivity it suffers the individual citizen of the nation or State, the public servants, and the oligarchy of labor-caste, throughout the country, at their pleasure to invade and violate this constitutional limitation; from intrusion upon whose sacred boundaries sovereign States are constitutionally inhibited, even when in the exercise of their original, sovereign, and substantive powers to regulate the domestic concerns of their own citizens.