Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, Volume 182Published for John Conrad and Company, 1901 |
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... Congress . I. As soon as the military status ceases and a de facto civil government is carried on , even by army officers , the civil rule being reëstablished , it is subject to the constitutional require- ments . These territories are ...
... Congress . I. As soon as the military status ceases and a de facto civil government is carried on , even by army officers , the civil rule being reëstablished , it is subject to the constitutional require- ments . These territories are ...
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... Congress over the political status is plenary . Politi- cal rights are franchises which may be given or taken away by Congress in the territories , i . e . , the places over which it has exclusive local jurisdiction . Murphy v . Ramsey ...
... Congress over the political status is plenary . Politi- cal rights are franchises which may be given or taken away by Congress in the territories , i . e . , the places over which it has exclusive local jurisdiction . Murphy v . Ramsey ...
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... Congress . Passing this objection , however , the position criticised is un- sound for the following reasons : ( 1 ) If the Constitution is in the Territories as an act of Con- gress , it is a mere law , and can be recalled in whole or ...
... Congress . Passing this objection , however , the position criticised is un- sound for the following reasons : ( 1 ) If the Constitution is in the Territories as an act of Con- gress , it is a mere law , and can be recalled in whole or ...
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... Congress , he had in mind the political rights of the people of the States recognized by the Constitution , which extend as well to the inhabitants of Territories . The position , however , which he was forced to take resolves itself ...
... Congress , he had in mind the political rights of the people of the States recognized by the Constitution , which extend as well to the inhabitants of Territories . The position , however , which he was forced to take resolves itself ...
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... Congress in its legislation for the Territory to preserve the principles of the Constitution , but it was not absolutely necessary . The Terri- tories were not a part , but a possession of the United States . " Calhoun , on the contrary ...
... Congress in its legislation for the Territory to preserve the principles of the Constitution , but it was not absolutely necessary . The Terri- tories were not a part , but a possession of the United States . " Calhoun , on the contrary ...
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Page 381 - To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may at any time be passed by those intended to be restrained ? The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers is abolished if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation.
Page 280 - 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 375 - Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the Constitution, and all means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to that end, which are not prohibited, but consistent with the letter and spirit of the Constitution, are constitutional.
Page 94 - If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way, which the constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation ; for, though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit, which the use can at...
Page 369 - The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress.
Page 370 - The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences, was ever invented by the wit of man, than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.
Page 94 - 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 501 - ... failure to prosecute the work on the tunnel for six months shall be considered as an abandonment of the right to all undiscovered veins on the line of such tunnel.
Page 557 - The Legislature shall provide by law a uniform and equal rate of assessment and taxation on all property in the State, according to its value in money, and shall prescribe such regulations by general law as shall secure a just valuation for taxation of all property...
Page 343 - Spain relinquishes all claim of sovereignty over and title to Cuba. And as the island is, upon its evacuation by Spain, to be occupied by the United States, the United States will, so long as such occupation shall last, assume and discharge the obligations that may under international law result from the fact of its occupation, for the protection of life and property.