The constitution declares in whom “the judicial power of the United States shall be vested.” It shall be vested in “one supreme court, and in such inferior courts as Congress may from time to time establish.” No commissioner, nor any number of commissioners, constitute one of these courts.
Mann emphasizes the constitutional stipulation regarding the judicial power of the United States and the illegitimacy of the commissioners.
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