North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal

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University of Northern Iowa, 1900

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Page 440 - or property without due process of law, that private property shall not be taken for public use without compensation, that no law shall be passed impairing the obligation of contracts, etc., because our nation has declared these to be rights belonging to all men.
Page 440 - They do not share In the government till Florida shall become a State. In the meantime, Florida continues to be a territory of the United States governed by virtue of that clause In the Constitution which empowers Congress 'to make all needful
Page 379 - by general laws" to "confer upon the boards of supervisors of the several counties of the State such further powers of local legislation and administration as the Legislature may from time to time deem expedient.
Page 438 - 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 68 - which leads him to the eminently pertinent remark that "this is a poison bad world for the romancer, this Anglo-Saxon world; I usually get out of it by not having any women in it at all." Then he remembers he had "The Treasure of Franchard" refused as unfit for a family magazine and feels—as well he
Page 364 - matters of paramount concern to the people of the United States. No other great Power would, under similar circumstances, fail to assert a rightful control over a work so closely and vitally affecting its interests and welfare.
Page 465 - dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory and other property belonging to the United States.
Page 383 - in cases where, in the judgment of the Legislature, the objects of the corporation cannot be attained under general
Page 12 - by which the British Government guaranteed to the emigrant farmers beyond the Vaal River the right to manage their own affairs and to govern themselves according to their own laws,

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