 The territory had been ceded as a conquest, and was to be preserved and governed as such until the sovereignty to which it had passed had legislated for it. That sovereignty was the United States, under the Constitution, by which power had been given...  Conservative Essays, Legal and Political - Page 204by Samuel Smith Nicholas - 1865 - 232 pagesFull view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1855 - 702 pages
...accordingly. He determined, in the absence of all instruction, to maintain the existing government. The territory had been ceded as a conquest, and was...given to Congress to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States, with... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Chew Howard - African Americans - 1857 - 254 pages
...Harrison, (16 How., 193-'4,) that the sovereignty of California was in the United States, in virtue of the Constitution, by which power had been given to Congress to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States, with... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Chew Howard - African Americans - 1857 - 260 pages
...Harrison, (16 How., 193-'4,) that the sovereignty of California was in the United States, in virtue of the Constitution, by which power had been given to Congress to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging: to the United States, with... | |
 | Thomas Hart Benton - Missouri compromise - 1857 - 208 pages
...Harrison, (16 How., 193-'4,) that the sovereignty of California was in the United States, in virtue of the Constitution, by which power had been given to Congress to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States, with... | |
 | Michael W. Cluskey - Political Science - 1857 - 672 pages
...Harrison (1C How. 193-4), that the sovereignty of California was in the United States, m virtue of the Constitution, by which power had been given to Congress to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States, with... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Slavery - 1859 - 44 pages
...possession. Mr. Justice Wayne pronounced the unanimous decision of the Bench, in which he said, — " The Territory had been ceded as a conquest, and was...given to Congress to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the Territory or other property belonging to the United States, with... | |
 | Henry Wager Halleck - International law - 1861 - 956 pages
...cession, becomes a part of the United States. It is true that the territory acquired as a conquest i* to be preserved and governed as such, until the sovereignty to which it has passed, legislate for it, or gives it the authority to legislate for itself. In conquests made... | |
 | William Whiting - Executive power - 1864 - 106 pages
...He determined, in the absence of all instruction, to maintain the existing government. The terriiory had been ceded as a conquest, and was to be preserved...given to Congress to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States, with... | |
 | William Whiting - Executive power - 1864 - 104 pages
...instruction, to maintain the existing government. The territory had been ceded as a conquest, and zoos to be preserved and governed as such until the sovereignty...given to Congress to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States, with... | |
 | William Whiting - Executive power - 1864 - 376 pages
...accordingly. He determined, in the absence of all instruction, to maintain the existing government. The territory had been ceded as a conquest, and was...sovereignty to which it had passed had legislated lor it. That sovereignty was the United States, under the Constitution, by which power had been given... | |
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