In Re Chase

In Buckner v. Finley, 2 Peters, 586, 7 Law Ed., 528, it is said: “For all national purposes embraced by the Federal Constitution, the states and the citizens thereof are one, united under the same sovereign authority, and governed by the same laws. In other respects the states are necessarily foreign to and independent of each other. Their constitutions and forms of government being, although republican, altogether different, as are their laws and institutions.” Although forming a confederated government the states retain, their individual sovereign-ties, and without special constitutional or…