Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, Volume 60Banks Law Publishing, 1857 |
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Page 181
... legislative authority of her mon- archs , has become the basis for judicial decision in the courts of the United States , and her legal administration of purely municipal regulations is taken as a guide to determine the jurisdictional ...
... legislative authority of her mon- archs , has become the basis for judicial decision in the courts of the United States , and her legal administration of purely municipal regulations is taken as a guide to determine the jurisdictional ...
Page 198
... legislative or executive departments of the Government , or which might put it in their power to embarrass our commerce and inter- course with foreign nations , or endanger our amicable rela- tions . But however that may be , we are ...
... legislative or executive departments of the Government , or which might put it in their power to embarrass our commerce and inter- course with foreign nations , or endanger our amicable rela- tions . But however that may be , we are ...
Page 202
... legislative jurisdiction of the case . It cannot overlook the fact upon which its jurisdiction depends , by any action in the case in the Circuit Court upon an irregular appeal . The case in that court was coram non judice , and is so ...
... legislative jurisdiction of the case . It cannot overlook the fact upon which its jurisdiction depends , by any action in the case in the Circuit Court upon an irregular appeal . The case in that court was coram non judice , and is so ...
Page 323
... legislative confirmation of titles to land , has been given by the sovereignty or legislative authority only having the right to make it , without any provision having been made , in the patent or by the law , Field v . Seabury et al ...
... legislative confirmation of titles to land , has been given by the sovereignty or legislative authority only having the right to make it , without any provision having been made , in the patent or by the law , Field v . Seabury et al ...
Page 330
... legislative grantees , who were intended to take under the act of March 26 , 1851. Both parties in the suit bringing themselves within the classes designated , the defend- ants , being in possession , as has been ascertained by the ...
... legislative grantees , who were intended to take under the act of March 26 , 1851. Both parties in the suit bringing themselves within the classes designated , the defend- ants , being in possession , as has been ascertained by the ...
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Page 589 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 534 - The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year 1808, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.
Page 403 - On the contrary they were at that time considered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings, who had been subjugated by the dominant race, and whether emancipated or not, yet remained subject to their authority, and had no rights or privileges but such as those who held the power and the Government might choose to grant them.
Page 553 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States and admitted as soon as possible according to the principles of the federal Constitution to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States, and in the mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the Religion which they profess.
Page 533 - The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law...
Page 443 - The constitution vests the whole judicial power of the United States in one Supreme Court, and such inferior courts as congress shall, from time to time, ordain and establish.
Page 536 - Resolved that provision ought to be made for the admission of States lawfully arising within the limits of the United States, whether from a voluntary junction of Government and Territory or otherwise, with the consent of a number of voices in the National legislature less than the whole.
Page 544 - Waiving the question of the constitutional authority of the Legislature to establish an incorporated bank as being precluded in my judgment by repeated recognitions under varied circumstances of the validity of such an institution in acts of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the Government, accompanied by indications, in different modes, of a concurrence of the general will of the nation...
Page 448 - And an act of congress which deprives a citizen of the United States of his liberty or property, merely because he came himself or brought his property into a particular territory of the United States, and who had committed no offense against the laws, could hardly be dignified with the name of due process of law.
Page 611 - 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.