 | United States Department of State - United States - 1936 - 872 pages
...effect the enumerated powers, is categorically true only in respect of our internal affairs. . . . "As a result of the separation from Great Britain...agency — namely the Continental Congress, composed of delegates from the thirteen colonies. That agency exercised the powers of war and peace, raised... | |
 | United States. Dept. of State - United States - 1935 - 666 pages
...categorically true only in res|>ect of our internal affairs. . . . "As a result of the separation from (Jreat Britain by the colonies. acting as a unit, the powers...agency — namely the Continental Congress, composed of delegates from the thirteen colonies. Thai agency exercised the powers of war and peace, raised... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - Commercial treaties - 1937 - 574 pages
...Union as a whole. n the words of the Court : As a result of tha separation from Great Britain by tl'e colonies, acting as a unit, the powers of external...corporate capacity as the United States of America. Then the Court goes on, in discussing this sharp distinction, to say (hat whereas there are strict... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Foreign Affairs - 1937 - 190 pages
...establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do." colonies were a unit in foreign affairs, acting through...agency — namely the Continental Congress, composed of delegates from the thirteen colonies. That agency exercised the powers of war and peace, raised... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs - 1939 - 722 pages
...Alliances, establish Commerce and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do." As a result of the separation from Great Britain by...agency — namely, the Continental Congress, composed of Delegates from the Thirteen Colonies. That agency exercised the powers of war and peace, raised... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Foreign AFfairs - 1939 - 658 pages
...Alliances, establish Commerce and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do." As a result of the separation from Great Britain by...a unit in foreign affairs, acting through a common agencv — namely, the Continental Congress, composed of Delegates from the Thirteen Colonies. That... | |
 | H. Lauterpacht - Law - 1945 - 570 pages
...establish Commerce and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do '. " As a result of the separation from Great Britain by...agency— namely the Continental Congress, composed of delegates from the thirteen colonies. That agency exercised the powers of war and peace, raised... | |
 | H. Lauterpacht - Law - 1986 - 564 pages
...establish Commerce and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do '. " As a result of the separation from Great Britain by...a unit in foreign affairs, acting through a common agency—namely the Continental Congress, composed of delegates from the thirteen colonies. That agency... | |
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As a result of the separation from Great Britain by the colonies, acting as a unit, the powers of external sovereignty passed from the Crown not to the colonies severally, but to the colonies in their collective and corporate capacity as the United States... 
