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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... proprietor . Now it is true that in 1878 Spain made an agree- ment with the sultan which perhaps recognizes him 1 Page 43 . as the head of a vassal state , and , ΙΟ LAW AND POLICY OF ANNEXATION . OUR TITLE UNDER THE TREATY OF PARIS ΙΟ.
... proprietor . Now it is true that in 1878 Spain made an agree- ment with the sultan which perhaps recognizes him 1 Page 43 . as the head of a vassal state , and , ΙΟ LAW AND POLICY OF ANNEXATION . OUR TITLE UNDER THE TREATY OF PARIS ΙΟ.
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... recognized , and Spain agreed to relinquish any claim to territory in Borneo based on the pretensions of the sultan . ' But any suggestions of a debased sovereignty in the sultan , perhaps not unlike that attributed to the Indian chiefs ...
... recognized , and Spain agreed to relinquish any claim to territory in Borneo based on the pretensions of the sultan . ' But any suggestions of a debased sovereignty in the sultan , perhaps not unlike that attributed to the Indian chiefs ...
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... recognize its necessity in deal- ing with slaveholding and polygamous barbarians who are only restrained from piracy by gunboats and blackmail . This certificate of title sufficiently demonstrates our legal right to possess the ...
... recognize its necessity in deal- ing with slaveholding and polygamous barbarians who are only restrained from piracy by gunboats and blackmail . This certificate of title sufficiently demonstrates our legal right to possess the ...
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... recognizing citizenship , promising statehood , or de- limiting new national boundaries which appear in some earlier treaties of annexation . But these omissions are , like certain subordinate clauses , in- competent to qualify the ...
... recognizing citizenship , promising statehood , or de- limiting new national boundaries which appear in some earlier treaties of annexation . But these omissions are , like certain subordinate clauses , in- competent to qualify the ...
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... recognized as being within the full jurisdiction of the Federal Government . But because it is within this jurisdiction it cannot be " foreign . " 66 66 " 2 There are , indeed , instances of the subjection of two countries to one ...
... recognized as being within the full jurisdiction of the Federal Government . But because it is within this jurisdiction it cannot be " foreign . " 66 66 " 2 There are , indeed , instances of the subjection of two countries to one ...
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acquired acquisition administration allegiance Amendment American annexed territory archipelago ARTICLE asserted authority Britain British Government California ceded territory cession Chamrajendra Wadiar Bahádur Chief Justice Marshall China Chinese citizens citizenship civil claim clause commerce Constitution Crown Cuba Cuban CUSHMAN K declared District domestic dominion duties effect ernment established executive exercise Filipinos force foreign Germany Governor-General in Council gress Howard Indian inhabitants insurgent interests international law islands Jules Cambon jurisdiction of Congress Kiao-chau land legislative legislature Louisiana Madagascar Mahárája Chamrajendra Wadiar Mahárája of Mysore Malagasy ment military nations obligations occupation peace persons Peters Philippines political Porto Rico possession present treaty President principle protection protectorate provision question ratifications regard relation relinquishes respect rule says sovereign sovereignty Spain Spanish status Sulu supra Supreme Court theory thereof tion Treaty of Paris United States territory Wheaton WILLIAM MCKINLEY Wong Kim Ark
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Page 177 - That the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination when that is accomplished to leave the government and control of the island to its people.
Page 46 - The powers of the Legislature are defined and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken or forgotten the Constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may at any time be passed by those intended to be restrained?
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 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 179 - Who is the sovereign, de jure or de facto, of a territory is not a judicial, but is a political question, the determination of which by the legislative and executive departments of any government conclusively binds the judges, as well as all other officers, citizens and subjects of that government. This principle has always been upheld by this court, and has been affirmed under a great variety of circumstances.
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.