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Learning from experience American Founders had the vision of providing an equity safeguard in the Constitution against legal fiction created by treasonous and usurping legislators and judges, both State and Federal. Article III, Section 2 reads in pertinent part: "The judicial Power [of an honest judge]shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under the Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;---....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;---]*...[*Changed by the Eleventh Amendment.] “‘Equity’ has said to be the name of the principles under which substantial justice may be attained in particular cases where the prescribed or customary forms of ordinary law seem to be inadequate. The word describes a system of jurisprudence and it is employed to designate the principles or standards of that system. Such a use of the word is illustrated by the maxim, ‘Equity’ regards as done that which ought to be done.’” Jur (1996), p. 520-21