![]() Fortunately, under these circumstances, rules of interpretation and construction are subordinate to the principle that the object of all construction and interpretation is the just and reasonable operation of the particular statute, and accordingly it should be possible to construe the statute liberally to affect its remedial purpose and intent, and strictly to limit undue abrogation of fundamental rights or to prevent undue extension of extraordinary remedies. On the other hand, it remedies defects in the common law and in pre-existing statutory law as those laws affected Indians, and it was designed to correct certain evils of long standing and well known to Congress. This was, we think, because of the peculiar nature of the dealings between the Government and Indians from very early times. ![]() It confers special privileges upon the Indian claimants apart from the rest of the community, and to some extent is in derogation of the common law. It broadens the Government's consent to suit and as such is in derogation of its sovereignty. The Indian Claims Commission Act is both remedial legislation and special legislation.
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