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 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - Social sciences - 1908 - 654 pages
...may acquire. The Constitution declares that: " Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory belonging to the United States." Not the Northwest territory only; not Louisiana or Florida only; not territory on this continent only;... | |
 | Westel Woodbury Willoughby - Constitutional law - 1910 - 1170 pages
...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. The jurisdiction with which they are invested is not a .part of that judicial power which is denned... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1958 - 506 pages
...or Puerto Rico. In these cases, the Court drew its decisions from the power of Congress to "make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory . . . belonging to the United States," for which provision is made in Art. IV, § 3. The United States from time to time acquired lands in... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1960 - 1732 pages
...by virtue of that clause in the US Constitution, article IV, which empowers US Congress to make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory belonging to the United States. Justice White, in National Batik v. County of Yankton, 101 US 129, in 1879, decided that— it Is certainly... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1961 - 48 pages
...IV, section 3, clause 2 of the Constitution the Congress has the "power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory * * * belonging to the United States." In the Caribbean area these responsibilities have been exercised by Congress through legislation —... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1961 - 48 pages
...IV, section 3, clause 2 of the Constitution the Congress has the "power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory * * * belonging to the United States." In the Caribbean area these responsibilities have been exercised by Congress through legislation —... | |
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