And required a formal repeal of every act of that nature; and to avoid question, required it as well from those who had not, as from those who had passed such acts; which was complied with so fully, that no such laws remained in any State of the Union, except one;
And even that one could not have forborne, if any symptoms of compliance from the opposite party had rendered a reiterated requisition from Congress important.
4. That, indeed, the requiring such a repeal, was only to take away pretext:
For, that it was at all times perfectly understood, that treaties controlled the laws of the States—
The confederation having made them obligatory on the whole:
Congress having so declared and demonstrated them:
The Legislatures and Executives of most of the States having admitted it:
And the Judiciaries, both of the separate and General Governments, so deciding.
That the courts are open everywhere upon this principle:
That the British creditors have, for some time, been in the habit and course of recovering their debts at law: