Constitution > Article III > Section 2
Affecting Ambassadors and Public Ministers Clause/Ambassadors Clause
The judicial Power 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 Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;—to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;—to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party;—to Controversies between two or more States;— between a State and Citizens of another State,—between Citizens of different States,—between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.
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- United States Constitution
The Constitution of the United States.
- Charles Pinckney: "Observations On The Plan of Government Submitted to The Federal Convention, in Philadelphia, on the 28th of May, 1787"
- James Madison's Notes of the Constitutional Convention
- Additional Articles of Amendments
- Amendments Proposed by the Virginia Convention
- James Madison on the Pinckney Plan
- Timothy Pickering to John Gardner · recipient: John Gardner
- Draft Structural Amendments to The Constitution
- The Federalist No. 81
- George Mason to Arthur Lee · recipient: Arthur Lee
- Journal Notes of the Virginia Ratification Convention Proceedings
- Thomas Lloyds Notes of the Pennsylvania Ratification Convention
- Journal Notes of the Virginia Ratification Convention Proceedings
- Objections to the Constitution
- Francis Childs' Notes of the New York Ratification Convention Debates
- Draft Resolution by John Blair · recipient: John Blair
- The Federalist No. 80
- John McKesson's Notes of the New York Ratification Convention Debates