The Law and Policy of Annexation: With Special Reference to the Philippines, Together with Observations on the Status of CubaLongmans, Green, & Company, 1901 - 226 pages |
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... complete sovereignty over these islands we have eliminated this law from our reckoning . 3 Texas and Hawaii were annexed by joint resolu- tion of the Senate and House , because treaties of cession could not command the necessary two ...
... complete sovereignty over these islands we have eliminated this law from our reckoning . 3 Texas and Hawaii were annexed by joint resolu- tion of the Senate and House , because treaties of cession could not command the necessary two ...
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... complete equality so soon as that " state of manhood shall be attained . " " Chief Justice Taney declared that the power to admit new States authorizes " the acquisition of territory not fit for " admission at the time , but to be ...
... complete equality so soon as that " state of manhood shall be attained . " " Chief Justice Taney declared that the power to admit new States authorizes " the acquisition of territory not fit for " admission at the time , but to be ...
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... complete sovereignty of all the land demanded by the United States was never questioned , and in the treaty she assumed to cede , and the United States accepted sovereignty over all . We cannot afford to esteem that sovereignty as less ...
... complete sovereignty of all the land demanded by the United States was never questioned , and in the treaty she assumed to cede , and the United States accepted sovereignty over all . We cannot afford to esteem that sovereignty as less ...
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... complete sovereignty of the United States , it intended to hold , and did hold them aloof from the United States , except in that interna- tional sense which conveys no idea whatever of do- mestic unity . This theory has been lately ...
... complete sovereignty of the United States , it intended to hold , and did hold them aloof from the United States , except in that interna- tional sense which conveys no idea whatever of do- mestic unity . This theory has been lately ...
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... complete transfer of the sovereignty of the Philip- pines from Spain to the United States , the presence of certain clauses and the absence of others forbid the conclusion that the Archipelago is incorporated 1 See Ware v . Hylton , 3 ...
... complete transfer of the sovereignty of the Philip- pines from Spain to the United States , the presence of certain clauses and the absence of others forbid the conclusion that the Archipelago is incorporated 1 See Ware v . Hylton , 3 ...
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acquired Administration allegiance Amendment American annexed territory ARTICLE assertion authority British California ceded territory cession Chief Justice Marshall Chinese citizens citizenship civil claim clause colonial commerce Constitution Crown Cuba Cuban declared District domestic dominions duties effect ernment established executive exercise Filipinos force foreign French Germany Governor-General in Council gress Howard impose Indian inhabitants insurgents islands Jules Cambon jurisdiction of Congress Kearny Code land legislative powers legislature Louisiana Madagascar Mahárája Chamrajendra Wadiar Mahárája of Mysore Majesty Malagasy ment military nation obligations occupation opinion Parliament peace persons Peters Philippines political Porto Rico possession present treaty President principle protection protectorate provision question ratifications regard regulate relation relinquishes republic respect revenue rule says slavery sovereign sovereignty Spain Spanish status Sulu supra Supreme Court tariff terri theory tion Treaty of Paris United States territory vested Wheaton WILLIAM MCKINLEY Wong Kim Ark
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Page 202 - 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 193 - Whereas the abhorrent conditions which have existed for more than three years in the Island of Cuba, so near our own borders, have shocked the moral sense of the people of the United States...
Page 204 - President of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and...
Page 204 - In faith whereof, we, the respective Plenipotentiaries, have signed this treaty and have hereunto affixed our seals. Done in duplicate at Washington the eighth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
Page 9 - 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 meantime they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.
Page 18 - The United States will, for the term of ten years from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty, admit Spanish ships and merchandise to the ports of the Philippine Islands on the same terms as ships and merchandise of the United States.
Page 55 - Every male person, of the age of twenty-one years or upwards, belonging to either of the following classes, who shall have resided in the State for one year next preceding any election, shall be deemed a qualified elector at such election: 1.
Page 78 - The district of Columbia, or the territory west of the Missouri, is not less within the United States, than Maryland or Pennsylvania ; and it is not less necessary, on the principles of our constitution, that uniformity in the imposition of imposts, duties, and excises, should be observed in the one, than in the other.
Page 197 - Day, Cushman K. Davis, William P. Frye, George Gray, and WHitelaw Reid, citizens of the United States; And Her Majesty the Queen Regent of Spain, Don Eugenio Montero Rios, president of the senate, Don Buenaventura de Abarzuza, senator of the Kingdom and ex-minister of the Crown; Don Jose...
Page 2 - This principle was, that discovery gave title to the government by whose subjects, or by whose authority, it was made, against all other European governments, which title might be consummated by possession.