Jerry Preston McNeil v. Scott Marsh, et al.

Prologue: This is a bill in the equity jurisdiction, grounded in the decisions of this Court, where there is no adequate remedy at law in Oklahoma. It involves a dispute as old as the Nation itself Elbridge Gerry and others, refused to vote for adoption of the new Constitution in 1787, on grounds that it gave Congress a power "to make what laws they might please to call necessary and proper;" Article I, Section 8, Clause 18; Elliot's Debates, vol. ii, 327, 328. Oklahoma and each of the several States, through the Council of State Governments, have become, by operation of the Constitution of the United States of America,"illegal organizations," in contemplation of the bar contained therein in Article I, Section 10; Syllabus 1., Williams v. Bruffy, 96 U.S. 176 (1877). In this current illegal character, indistinguishable from the Confederate States in rebellion, each member State of the Council invades the immunities reserved to their people. "Belligerent rights cannot be exercised when there are no belligerents." "but no Nation can make a conquest of its own territory;" Ford u. Surget, 97 U.S. 594, 614 (1877). Whether civil governments shall be restored to each of the several indestructible States of this indestructible union of American States, and sovereignty restored to their people? Whether federal and State jurisdictions shall be restricted by the supreme law of the land?