The Law and Policy of Annexation: With Special Reference to the Philippines, Together with Observations on the Status of Cuba |
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... by Marshall as " our great republic , which is composed of States and " Territories . The District of Columbia , or the Terri- tory west of the Missouri , is not less within the " United States , than Maryland or Pennsylvania .
... by Marshall as " our great republic , which is composed of States and " Territories . The District of Columbia , or the Terri- tory west of the Missouri , is not less within the " United States , than Maryland or Pennsylvania .
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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.
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| Title | The Law and Policy of Annexation: With Special Reference to the Philippines, Together with Observations on the Status of Cuba |
| Author | Carman Fitz Randolph |
| Publisher | Longmans, Green, & Company, 1901 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 29 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 226 pages |
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