A Digest of the International Law of the United States: Taken from Documents Issued by Presidents and Secretaries of State, and from Decisions of Federal Courts and Opinions of Attorneys-general, Volume 1Francis Wharton U.S. Government Printing Office, 1887 |
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... exercise . " Hence a conveyance of title to lands exclusively derived from an Indian tribe northwest of the Ohio in 1773 and 1775 to private persons conveys no title . Marshall , C.J. , Johnson v . McIntosh , 8 Wheat . , 543 , 579 , 587 ...
... exercise . " Hence a conveyance of title to lands exclusively derived from an Indian tribe northwest of the Ohio in 1773 and 1775 to private persons conveys no title . Marshall , C.J. , Johnson v . McIntosh , 8 Wheat . , 543 , 579 , 587 ...
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... exercise by him- self of all powers and functions of government . He may appoint all the necessary officers and clothe them with designated powers , larger or smaller , according to his pleasure , and he may prescribe the revenues to be ...
... exercise by him- self of all powers and functions of government . He may appoint all the necessary officers and clothe them with designated powers , larger or smaller , according to his pleasure , and he may prescribe the revenues to be ...
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... exercise of it does not pass to the nation to which it is trans- ferred until actual delivery . But it is also true that the exercise of sovereignty by the ceding country ceases , except for strictly municipal purposes , especially for ...
... exercise of it does not pass to the nation to which it is trans- ferred until actual delivery . But it is also true that the exercise of sovereignty by the ceding country ceases , except for strictly municipal purposes , especially for ...
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... exercise any right over that property . Such is to day the public law of Europe , whose nations have corrected the barbarism of ancient practices which place private as well as public property under military law . ' [ C. Massé ...
... exercise any right over that property . Such is to day the public law of Europe , whose nations have corrected the barbarism of ancient practices which place private as well as public property under military law . ' [ C. Massé ...
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... exercise the functions of the government . But it carries with it no right , so far , at any rate , as foreigners are concerned , to give a retro- active effect to its measures and expose them to penalties and punish- ments and their ...
... exercise the functions of the government . But it carries with it no right , so far , at any rate , as foreigners are concerned , to give a retro- active effect to its measures and expose them to penalties and punish- ments and their ...
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Page 483 - Chinese subjects, whether proceeding to the United States as teachers, students, merchants or from curiosity, together with their body and household servants, and Chinese laborers who are now in the United States shall be allowed to go and come of their own free will and accord, and shall be accorded all the rights, privileges, immunities, and exemptions which are accorded to the citizens and subjects of the most favored nation.
Page 271 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise, and in the arrangements by which they may terminate, the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European power.
Page 176 - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Page 267 - Great Britain is the nation which can do us the most harm of any one, or all on earth ; and with her on our side we need not fear the whole world. With her then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship, and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side by side, in the same cause.
Page 166 - ... to extend their protection, by treaty stipulations, to any other practicable communications, whether by canal or railway, across the isthmus which connects North and South America, and especially to the interoceanic communications, should the same prove to be practicable, whether by canal or railway, which are now proposed to be established by the way of Tehuantepec or Panama.
Page 170 - Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
Page 358 - ... it is scarcely possible to resist the conviction that the annexation of Cuba to our federal republic will be indispensable to the continuance and integrity of the Union itself.
Page 266 - The question presented by the letters you have sent me, is the most momentous which has ever been offered to my contemplation since that of Independence. That made us a nation, this sets our compass and points the course which we are to steer through the ocean of time opening on us.
Page 271 - At the proposal of the Russian Imperial Government, made through the Minister of the Emperor residing here, a full power and instructions have been transmitted to the Minister of the United States at St. Petersburg, to arrange, by amicable negotiation, the respective rights and interests of the two nations on the north-west coast of this Continent.
Page 272 - In the war between those new governments and Spain we declared our neutrality at the time of their recognition, and to this we have adhered, and shall continue to adhere, provided no change shall occur which, in the judgment of the competent authorities of this Government, shall make a corresponding change on the part of the United States indispensable to their security.