Article 3, Section 2, Clause 1

The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;--to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;--to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;--to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party;--to Controversies between two or more States;--between a State and Citizens of another State;--between Citizens of different States;--between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.

1.Dr. Bonham's Case
2.Lord Sackville's Case
3.William Blackstone, Commentaries 1:247--48, 3:68--70, 109--11, 429--37, 1765 1768
4.Thomas Jefferson, Continental Congress, 1775
5.Articles of Confederation, art. 9, ¶¶ 2--3, 1 Mar. 1781
6.Clinton v. The Hannah
7.Records of the Federal Convention
8.Federal Farmer, no. 3, 10 Oct. 1787
9.Charles Pinckney, Observations on the Plan of Government, 1787
10.James Madison to George Washington, 18 Oct. 1787
11.James Wilson, Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention, 1, 7 Dec. 1787
12.Timothy Pickering to Charles Tillinghast, 24 Dec. 1787
13.Oliver Ellsworth, Connecticut Ratifying Convention, 7 Jan. 1788
14.James Madison, Federalist, no. 37, 235--37, 11 Jan. 1788
15.Federal Farmer, no. 15, 18 Jan. 1788
16.Federal Farmer, no. 18, 25 Jan. 1788
17.James Iredell, Marcus, Answers to Mr. Mason's Objections to the New Constitution, 1788
18.Luther Martin, Genuine Information, 1788
19.Brutus, no. 11, 31 Jan. 1788
20.Brutus, no. 12, 7--14 Feb. 1788
21.Brutus, no. 13, 21 Feb. 1788
22.Brutus, no. 15, 20 Mar. 1788
23.Alexander Hamilton, Federalist, no. 80, 534--41, 28 May 1788
24.Alexander Hamilton, Federalist, no. 81, 542--52, 28 May 1788
25.Alexander Hamilton, Federalist, no. 82, 553--57, 28 May 1788
26.John Marshall, Virginia Ratifying Convention, 20 June 1788
27.A Native of Virginia, Observations upon the Proposed Plan of Federal Government, 1788
28.Samuel Johnston, North Carolina Ratifying Convention, 28 July 1788
29.James Madison, Observations on Jefferson's Draft of a Constitution for Virginia, 15 Oct. 1788
30.James Wilson, Comparison of Constitutions, Lectures on Law, 1791
31.Hayburn's Case
32.Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 18 July 1793
33.John Jay to George Washington, 20 July 1793
34.John Jay to George Washington, 8 Aug. 1793
35.Shedden v. Custis
36.United States v. Ravara
37.United States v. Yale Todd (1794), IN United States v. Ferreira
38.Glass v. The Sloop Betsey
39.Jansen v. Vrow Christina Magdalena
40.United States v. Worrall
41.Calder v. Bull
42.Fowler v. Lindsey
43.Turner v. Bank of North America
44.Mossman v. Higginson
45.Cooper v. Telfair
46.House of Representatives, Judiciary Bill, 7 Jan. 1801
47.Marbury v. Madison
48.St. George Tucker, Blackstone's Commentaries 1:App. 151--53, 378--79, 412--13, 416--17, 418--26, 428--33; 5:App. 3--10, 1803
49.Strawbridge v. Curtiss
50.Bank of the United States v. Deveaux
51.United States v. Peters
52.Hodgson & Thompson v. Bowerbank
53.Owings v. Norwood's Lessee
54.Brown v. Crippin
55.Livingston v. Van Ingen
56.United States v. Hudson & Goodwin
57.McIntire v. Wood
58.Clarke v. Morey
59.Jackson v. Rose
60.Gouverneur Morris to Timothy Pickering, 22 Dec. 1814
61.An Act to Vest More Effectually in the State Courts and in the District Courts of the United States Jurisdiction in the Cases Therein Mentioned
62.Town of Pawlet v. Clark
63.DeLovio v. Boit
64.Corporation of New Orleans v. Winter
65.Martin v. Hunter's Lessee
66.United States v. Coolidge
67.Commonwealth v. Kosloff
68.Morgan's Heirs v. Morgan
69.Wetherbee v. Johnson
70.James Madison to James Monroe, 27 Dec. 1817
71.United States v. Bevans
72.Cooper v. Galbraith
73.United States v. Schooner Little Charles
74.Cohens v. Virginia
75.M'Clung v. Silliman
76.The Sarah
77.James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 27 June 1823
78.Rufus King to C. Gore, 1 Feb. 1824
79.Osborn v. Bank of the United States
80.Eakins v. Raub
81.United States v. Ortega
82.American Insurance Co. v. Canter
83.Picquet v. Swan
84.William Rawle, A View of the Constitution of the United States 253--73 1829 (2d ed.)
85.James Madison to M. L. Hurlbert, May 1830
86.Ex parte Crane
87.Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 3:§§ 1659--75, 1684--90, 1692--94, 1833
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