 | Daniel Gardner - International and municipal law - 1860 - 740 pages
...purposes of aggression or aggrandizement, but to enable the general government to vindicate, by arms, if it should become necessary, its own rights and...enemy's country. The United States, it is true, may extend its boundaries by conquest or treaty, and may demand the cession of territory as the condition... | |
 | Andrés Castillero - New Almaden Mines - 1861 - 1082 pages
...purpose of aggression or aggrandizement, but to enable the General Government to vindicate by arms, if it should become necessary, its own rights and...purpose of conquest or the acquisition of territory.' As a limitation upon the power of Congress, this distinction may, practically, be unimportant. As every... | |
 | Andrés Castillero - Mining claims - 1861 - 1066 pages
...purpose of aggression or aggrandizement, but to enable the General Government to vindicate by arms, if it should become necessary, its own rights and the rights of its citizens. A war, tlierefore, declared by Congress, can never be presumed to be waged for the purpose of conquest or... | |
 | Andrés Castillero - Mining claims - 1861 - 1074 pages
...purpose of aggression or aggrandizement, but to enable the General Government to vindicate by arms, if it should become necessary, its own rights and the rights of its citizens. A wur, therefore, declared by Congress, can never be presumed to be waged for the purpose of conquest... | |
 | William Whiting - Executive power - 1864 - 104 pages
...purposes of aggression or aggrandizement, but to enable the general government to vindicate by arms, if it should become necessary, its own rights and...the limits of the United States by subjugating the enemy.s country. The United States, it is true, may extend its boundaries by conquest or treaty, and... | |
 | William Whiting - Executive power - 1864 - 106 pages
...the limits before assigned to them by the legislative power. subjugate, ernment to vindicate by arms, if it should become necessary, its own rights and the rights of its citizens. It is true that, when Tampico had been captured, and the State "^ (1 to th g X " of Tamaulipas subjugated,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 820 pages
...purposes of aggression or aggrandizement, but to enable the general governmen to vindicate by arms, if it should become necessary, its own rights and...enemy's country. The United States, it is true, may extend its boundaries by conquest or treaty, and * may demand the [ * 615 ] cession of territory as... | |
 | William Whiting - Executive power - 1871 - 728 pages
...purposes of aggression or aggrandizement, but to enable the general government to vindicate by arms, if it should become necessary, its own rights and...enemy's country. The United States, it is true, may extend its boundaries by conquest or treaty, and may demand the cession of territory as the condition... | |
 | William Whiting - Executive power - 1871 - 736 pages
...but to enable the general goveminent to vindicate by arms, if it should become necessary, its ov.-n rights and the rights of its citizens. A war, therefore,...of conquest, or the acquisition of territory : nor docs the law declaring the war imply an authority to the President to enlarge the limits of the United... | |
 | Adolphe de Pineton marquis de Chambrun - Constitutional history - 1874 - 318 pages
...purposes of aggression or aggrandizement, but to enable the general government to vindicate, by arms, if it should become necessary, its own rights and...purpose of conquest or the acquisition of territory." * At the same time that the convention gave to the legislature the war-declaring power, it chose to... | |
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But the genius and character of our institutions are peaceful, and the power to declare war was not conferred upon Congress for the purposes of aggression or aggrandizement, but to enable the general government to vindicate by arms, if it should become... 
