The Administration of Dependencies: A Study of the Evolution of the Federal Empire, with Special Reference to American Colonial Problems |
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... a Federal Empire . I then examined the American , British , and European theory and practice from the adoption of the Constitution until the present time , to discover to MEM AOKE what extent the principles embodied in the clause iii.
... a Federal Empire . I then examined the American , British , and European theory and practice from the adoption of the Constitution until the present time , to discover to MEM AOKE what extent the principles embodied in the clause iii.
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... extent the principles embodied in the clause had been recognized and followed , and what the result had been . The whole inquiry thus became a study of the evolution of the Federal Empire - a form of political organism which , though ...
... extent the principles embodied in the clause had been recognized and followed , and what the result had been . The whole inquiry thus became a study of the evolution of the Federal Empire - a form of political organism which , though ...
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... extent according to the common will and sentiment of the people to whom they are applied . The efforts of modern statesmanship are directed therefore toward pre- serving the two conceptions in the State side by side , and towards ...
... extent according to the common will and sentiment of the people to whom they are applied . The efforts of modern statesmanship are directed therefore toward pre- serving the two conceptions in the State side by side , and towards ...
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... of the successors of the actors of them , had an effect in formulating opinion concerning the relationship of the State to its dependencies and concerning the character and extent of its power over them Introduction 9.
... of the successors of the actors of them , had an effect in formulating opinion concerning the relationship of the State to its dependencies and concerning the character and extent of its power over them Introduction 9.
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... extent of its power over them ; and to study these acts and documents in the light of modern political science . France and England furnish the earliest examples of States consciously recognizing themselves as legal and political ...
... extent of its power over them ; and to study these acts and documents in the light of modern political science . France and England furnish the earliest examples of States consciously recognizing themselves as legal and political ...
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Page 194 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons of Great Britain, in Parliament assembled, had, hath, and of Right ought to have, full Power and Authority to make Laws and Statutes of sufficient Force and Validity to bind the Colonies and People of America, Subjects of the Crown of Great Britain, in all Cases whatsoever.4 This assertion of the authority of Parliament "to bind the Colonies and People of America ... in all Cases...
Page 372 - Canada, acceding to this confederation, and joining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into, and entitled to all the advantages of this Union. But no other colony shall be admitted into the same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine states.
Page 446 - Resolved, that each branch ought to possess the right of originating acts; that the national legislature ought to be empowered to enjoy the legislative rights vested in Congress by the Confederation, and moreover to legislate in all cases to which the separate states are incompetent or in which the harmony of the United States may be interrupted by the exercise of individual legislation...
Page 300 - That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of parliament, is against law.
Page 551 - They are legislative courts, created in virtue of the general right of sovereignty which exists in the government, or in virtue of that clause which enables Congress to make all needful rules and regulations, respecting the territory belonging to the United States.
Page 45 - The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.
Page 162 - That it is inseparably essential to the freedom of a people, and the undoubted right of Englishmen, that no taxes be imposed on them but with their own consent, given personally or by their representatives.
Page 421 - Territory shall be subject to pay a part of the Federal debts, contracted or to be contracted, and a proportional part of the expenses of government, to be apportioned on them by Congress, according to the same common rule and measure by which apportionments thereof shall be made on the other States...
Page 554 - That the Constitution, and all Laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within the said Territory of Nebraska as elsewhere within the United States...
Page 311 - The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations; not peace to arise out of universal discord fomented from principle in all parts of the empire; not peace to depend on the juridical determination of perplexing questions, or the precise marking the shadowy boundaries of a complex government. It is simple peace, sought in its natural course and in its ordinary haunts. It is peace sought in the spirit of...