PUBLIUS
1. It has been erroneously insinuated. with regard to the court of
chancery, that this court generally tries disputed facts by a jury. The
truth is, that references to a jury in that court rarely happen, and are
in no case necessary but where the validity of a devise of land comes
into question.
2. It is true that the principles by which that relief is governed are
now reduced to a regular system; but it is not the less true that they
are in the main applicable to SPECIAL circumstances, which form
exceptions to general rules.
3. Vide No. 81, in which the supposition of its being abolished by the
appellate jurisdiction in matters of fact being vested in the Supreme
Court, is examined and refuted.
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FEDERALIST No. 84
Certain General and Miscellaneous Objections to the Constitution
Considered and Answered
From McLEAN's Edition, New York.
Wednesday, May 28, 1788
HAMILTON
To the People of the State of New York:
IN THE course of the foregoing review of the Constitution, I have taken
notice of, and endeavored to answer most of the objections which have
appeared against it. There, however, remain a few which either did not
fall naturally under any particular head or were forgotten in their
proper places.
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