Constitution > Article III > Section 2
United States Jurisdiction Clause/Federal Party 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.
Related Resources
- 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"
- Additional Articles of Amendments
- Amendments Proposed by the Virginia Convention
- James Madison's Notes of the Constitutional Convention
- James Madison's Notes of the Constitutional Convention
- Timothy Pickering to John Gardner · recipient: John Gardner
- Draft Structural Amendments to The Constitution
- George Mason to Arthur Lee · recipient: Arthur Lee
- Melancton Smith's Notes of the New York Ratification Convention Debates
- Thomas Lloyds Notes of the Pennsylvania Ratification Convention
- Journal Notes of the Virginia Ratification Convention Proceedings
- Cincinnatus I: To James Wilson, Esquirerecipient: James Wilson
- Edmund Randolph’s Suggestion for Conciliating the Small States
- Objections to the Constitution
- Francis Childs' Notes of the New York Ratification Convention Debates
- Journal Notes of the Virginia Ratification Convention Proceedings
- Enclosure 7 to Samuel Purviance (May 20, 1782): Some Remarks on the Title of Virginia to the Lands on the Western-Waters · recipient: Samuel Purviance
- Francis Childs' Notes of the New York Ratification Convention Debates
- Draft Resolution by John Blair · recipient: John Blair