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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... remains here he is entitled to the benefit of the guarantees of life , liberty and property secured by the Constitution to all persons of whatever race within the jurisdiction of the United States . His personal rights when he is in ...
... remains here he is entitled to the benefit of the guarantees of life , liberty and property secured by the Constitution to all persons of whatever race within the jurisdiction of the United States . His personal rights when he is in ...
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... remain . It was properly withheld from the Filipinos , as its allowance would have greatly embarrassed the United States without holding out any substantial advantage to the islanders . The Filipinos , then , remain in the islands ...
... remain . It was properly withheld from the Filipinos , as its allowance would have greatly embarrassed the United States without holding out any substantial advantage to the islanders . The Filipinos , then , remain in the islands ...
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... remain unspoiled by interpretations restricting it to the States , or conditioning its efficacy in federal territory upon the pleasure of Congress or the treaty - making body . Let us frankly admit that in ruling without the restraint ...
... remain unspoiled by interpretations restricting it to the States , or conditioning its efficacy in federal territory upon the pleasure of Congress or the treaty - making body . Let us frankly admit that in ruling without the restraint ...
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... remains the question whether the President may exercise legislative powers in the ceded territory pending action by Congress , and I mean by legislative powers the enactment of new laws and the repeal , alteration or suspension of old ...
... remains the question whether the President may exercise legislative powers in the ceded territory pending action by Congress , and I mean by legislative powers the enactment of new laws and the repeal , alteration or suspension of old ...
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... remain in a territo- rial condition . " 4 In virtue of these powers Congress enjoys a wide discretion in prescribing ... remains the sovereign body , and may alter or abolish it at will and exert superior legislative powers during the ...
... remain in a territo- rial condition . " 4 In virtue of these powers Congress enjoys a wide discretion in prescribing ... remains the sovereign body , and may alter or abolish it at will and exert superior legislative powers during the ...
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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.