There is certainly no power given by the Constitution to the Federal Government to establish or maintain colonies bordering on the United States or at a distance, to be ruled and governed at its own pleasure; nor to enlarge its territorial limits in any... The Life of Stephen A. Douglas - Page 485by James Washington Sheahan - 1860 - 528 pagesFull view - About this book
| United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Chew Howard - African Americans - 1857 - 260 pages
...United States from taking any property which he lawfully held into a Territory of the United States. This brings us to examine by what provision of the...in any way, except by the admission of new States. That power is plainly given ; and if a new State is admitted, it needs no further legislation by Congress,... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1857 - 688 pages
...United States from taking any property which he lawfully held into a Territory of the United States. . This brings us to examine by what provision of the...in any way, except by the admission of new States. That power is plainly given ; and if a new State is admitted, it needs no further legislation by Congress,... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Chew Howard - African Americans - 1857 - 254 pages
...United States from taking any property which he lawfully held into a Territory of the United States. This brings us to examine by what provision of the...in any way, except by the admission of new States. That power is plainly given ; and if a new State is admitted, it needs no further legislation by Congress,... | |
| Michael W. Cluskey - Political Science - 1857 - 672 pages
...citizen of the United States, while it remains a territory, and until it shall be admitted as one of tho states of the Union. There is certainly no power given...in any way, except by the admission of new states. That power is plainly given ยก and if a new state is admitted, it needs no further legislation by Congress,... | |
| Michael W. Cluskey - United States - 1859 - 812 pages
...This brings us to examine by what provision of the Constitution the present federal government, undor its delegated and restricted powers, is authorized...in any way, except by the admission of new states. That power is plainly given ; and if a new state is admitted, it needs no further legislation by Congress,... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1859 - 612 pages
...binding authority. " There is certainly no power," said Chief Justice Taney, in the Dred Scott case, " given by the Constitution to the Federal Government...distance, to be ruled and governed at its own pleasure. No power exists to acquire territory to be held and governed permanently in that character. Whatever... | |
| Campaign literature - 1860 - 270 pages
...United States, and what powers it may exercise therein over the person or properly or a citizen of (he United States, while it remains a territory, and until...be ruled and governed at its own pleasure ; nor to eularge its territorial limits in any way except by the admission of new States " The power to expand... | |
| E. N. Elliott - Fugitive slave law of 1850 - 1860 - 1310 pages
...States, while it remains a Territory, and until it shall be admitted as one of the States of the Unidn. There is certainly no power given by the Constitution...in any way, except by the admission of new States. That power is plainly given ; and if a new State is admitted, it needs no further legislation from... | |
| Campaign literature - 1860 - 268 pages
...United States, while it remains a territory, and until it shall he admitted as one of the States of ihe Union. " There is certainly no power given by the...bordering on the United States or at a distance, to he ruled and governed at its own pleasure ; nor to enlarge its territorial limits in any way except... | |
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