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Life Ins. Co., supra, 355 U.S., at
222-223, 78 S.Ct., at 201, this i
trend is largely attributable to
a fundamental, transformation in
the American economy.
'Today many commercial trans-
actions touch two or more States
and may involve parties separated
by the full continent. With
this increasing nationalization
of commerce has come a great
increase in the amount of
business conducted by mail
across state lines. At the
same time modern transportation
and communication have made it
much less burdensome for a
party sued to defend himself
in a State where he engages
in economic activity.'
The historical developments noted
in McGee, of course, have only
accelerated in the generation since
that case was decided.
(8) Nevertheless, we have never
accepted the proposition that state
lines are irrelevant for jurisdictional
purposes, nor could we and remain faith-
ful to the principles of interstate
federalism embodied in the Constitution.
The economic interdependence of the
States was foreseen and desired by
the Framers. In the Commerce Clause,
the provided that the Nation was to be
a common market, a 'free trade unit' in
which the States are debarred from
acting as separable economic entities.
H. P. Hood & Sons, Inc., v. Du Mond,
336 U.S. 525, 538 ,69 S.Ct. 657, 93 L.Ed. _
865 (1949). But the Framers also intended
that the States retain many essential
attributes of sovereignty, including, in
particular, the sovereign power to try
causes in their courts. The sovereignty
of each State, in turn, implied a limitation
on the sovereignty of all of its sister
States--a limitation express or implicit
in both the original scheme of he Consti-
tution and the Fourteenth Amendment."
law of the
Thus the/United States Supreme Court after 204 years is now worse than
when it began. If the United States Supreme Court would have followed
their own precedent of Pennoyer v. Neff, the law would have been settled
once and for all---no "servee" no valid judgment::: An excellent en-
cyclopedic discussion of this problem appears in Constitution of United
States of America, Analysis and Interpretation, prepared by the Con-
gressional and Research Service, Library of Contress, United States
Printing Office, page 1417 through 1425 (1972).
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Bearing in mind that a government of "laws and not of men"
must be applied across the board to rich and poor, red, yellow, black
and white, male and female equally. (See Constitutional Law by Nowak,
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