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 RECORDS OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION COMMITTEE OF DETAIL, IV 2. to impeachments of officers, and 3. to such other cases, as the national legislature may assign, as involving the national peace and harmony, in the collection of the revenue in disputes between citizens of different states (in disputes between a State & a Citizen or Citizens of another State) 2 in disputes between different states; and in disputes, in which subjects or clti- zens of other countries are concerned (& in Cases of Admiralty Jutisdn) But this supreme jurisdiction shall be appellate only, except in (Cases of Impeachrot. & (in)) those instances, in which the legislature shall make it original. and the legislature shall organize it 8. The whole or a part of the jurisdiction aforesaid according to the discretion of the legislature may be assigned to the inferior tribunals, as original tribunals. Miscellaneous provisions x New states soliciting admission into the Union (x. must be within the present limits of the united states) 2. must lawfully arise, that is (a- in the territory of the united states, with the assent of the legislature) (b- within the limits of a particular state, by the consent of a major part of the people of that state.) (States lawfully arising & if within the Limits of an of the prest. States by Consent of the Legisle. of those States.) 3- shall be admitted only on the suffrage of (]ds) in the house of representatives and (the like No in the) Senate Marginal note.

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