"Without justice being freely, fully, and impartially administered,

neither our persons, nor our rights, nor our property, can be

protected. And if these, or either of them, are regulated by no

certain laws, and are subject to no certain principles, and are

held by no certain tenure, and are redressed, when violated, by

no certain remedies, society fails of all its value; and men may

as well return to a state of savage and barbarous independence."

– Joseph Story (Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833)