43Z RECORDS OF THE rEDEPAL CONVENTION Monday MASON .4uggrt 27 States"--according to the provision in the 9th. art: of the Confederation- which was agreed to nero: con: ta Adjourned '6 McHENRY Monday 27 Augt. Amended the Presidential oath of 'office--made some other amendments- postponed what follows from the oath to the end. Agreed to the I. 2 and $ sect. of the XI article with amend- ments. MASON" The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court and in such Courts of Admiralty as Congress shall establish in an 7 of the States. And also in Courts of Admiralty to be established ?n such of the States as Congress shall direct. The jurisdiction of the supreme courts 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 ambassa- dors, other public ministers and consuls; to all cases of ad- miralty and maritime jurisdiction; to controversies to which the United States shall be a party? to controversies between two or more States; between cltizen.? of the .?ame State claiming lands of different States, and between a State and the �iti?ns thereof and foreign States, citizens or subjects. In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers ? See further Appendlx A, CLVIII (85-87), CCVIII, CCXIV, CCXV, CCXXVIII, CCCVI, CCCXIV. ? See further Appendix A, XCIV. l? This document, not in Mssoh's handwriting, was {ound among the Mason Papers. It seems to represent a plan for the organization and jurisdiction of the judiciary, which must have been prepared about this time by some one familiar with the work of the Convention. There ia no evidence that it was presented to the Con- ventlon. It is reprinted here from K. M. Rowland, Lift of Gtorgt
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