Notes on the Law of Territorial Expansion, with Especial Reference to the Philippines: Submitted to the Committee of the Judiciary of the Senate of the United States, March 16, 1900 ...De Vinne Press, 1900 - 54 pages |
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... exercise of a power which belonged to the United States , because it was a nation , and for that reason was endowed with the powers essential to national life , and that the United States has all the powers in respect of the territory ...
... exercise of a power which belonged to the United States , because it was a nation , and for that reason was endowed with the powers essential to national life , and that the United States has all the powers in respect of the territory ...
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... exercise their functions under the authority and control of the laws of the United States . " This statement misleads in so far as it lends color to the assertion that precedent sanctions the taxation of this commerce . It is conceded ...
... exercise their functions under the authority and control of the laws of the United States . " This statement misleads in so far as it lends color to the assertion that precedent sanctions the taxation of this commerce . It is conceded ...
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... exercise no power inconsistent with the provisions of the Constitution of the United States , which is the supreme law of the land . For this reason no import duties can be levied in California on articles the growth , produce or ...
... exercise no power inconsistent with the provisions of the Constitution of the United States , which is the supreme law of the land . For this reason no import duties can be levied in California on articles the growth , produce or ...
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... exercise in the islands only such political franchises as Con- gress may grant . In the language of the Supreme Court : " The per- sonal and civil rights of the inhabitants of the territories are secured to them , as to other citizens ...
... exercise in the islands only such political franchises as Con- gress may grant . In the language of the Supreme Court : " The per- sonal and civil rights of the inhabitants of the territories are secured to them , as to other citizens ...
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... exercising the powers delegated in the Constitution by the people of the several States , who have reserved to themselves or to the States all powers not delegated , and the right to amend the Constitution . The immeasurable difference ...
... exercising the powers delegated in the Constitution by the people of the several States , who have reserved to themselves or to the States all powers not delegated , and the right to amend the Constitution . The immeasurable difference ...
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Page 22 - An Act to provide revenue for the Government and to encourage the industries of the United States...
Page 20 - The power, then, to lay and collect duties, imposts and excises may be exercised and must be exercised throughout the United States. Does this term designate the whole or any particular portion of the American empire? Certainly this question can admit of but one answer. It is the name given to our great Republic, which is composed of States and Territories. The District of Columbia, or the territory west of the Missouri, is not less within the United States than Maryland or Pennsylvania...
Page 41 - Congress, be vested in such person or persons and shall be exercised in such manner as the President of the United States shall direct, for the establishment of civil government and for maintaining and protecting the inhabitants of said Islands in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and religion...
Page 17 - It certainly follows that the State did not cease to be a State nor her citizens to be citizens of the Union. If this were otherwise, the State must have become foreign and her citizens foreigners; the war must have ceased to be a war for the suppression of rebellion, and must have become a war for conquest and subjugation.
Page 39 - By the Constitution, as is now well settled, the United States, having rightfully acquired the Territories, and being the only Government which can impose laws upon them, have the entire dominion and sovereignty, national and municipal, Federal and State, over all the Territories, so long as they remain in a territorial condition.
Page 5 - 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 14 - Not only may a man be a citizen of the United States without being a citizen of a State, but an important element is necessary to convert the former into the latter. He must reside within the State to make him a citizen of it, but it is only necessary that he should be born or naturalized in the United States to be a citizen of the Union.
Page 35 - That Congress cannot delegate legislative power to the President is a principle universally recognized as vital to the integrity and maintenance of the system of government ordained by the Constitution.
Page 10 - A witness in civil cases cannot be excluded in the courts of the United States because he or she is a party to, or interested in, the issue...
Page 41 - Until Congress shall provide for the government of such islands all the civil, judicial and military powers exercised by the officers of the existing government in said islands shall be vested in such person or persons and shall be exercised in such manner as the President of the United States shall direct; and the President shall have power to remove said officers and fill the vacancies so occasioned.