 | The Brotherhood of Liberty, Newport, Rhode Island - 1900 - 352 pages
...the last. PRESIDENT: The counsel of a Wall Street syndicate representing millions (writes (reads) : The Constitution has made no provision for our holding...for incorporating foreign nations into our Union. Either Thomas Jefferson did not comprehend the Constitution he assisted in creating or William McKinley... | |
 | Edmund Hamilton Sears - 1900 - 640 pages
...impoverished, and discontent became 1 Jefferson himself said of the purchase, in his correspondence : " The Executive, in seizing the fugitive occurrence which so much advances the good of the country, has done an act beyond the Constitution. The Legislature, in casting behind them metaphysical... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1901 - 1444 pages
...to tho Constitution, approving and confirming an act which the nation had not previously authorized. The Constitution has made no provision for our holding...which so much advances the good of their country, has done an act beyond the Constitution. Subsequent reference is made to an act of indemnity, and,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1901 - 196 pages
...confirming an act which the nation had not previously authorized. The Constitution has made no provision for holding foreign territory, still less for incorporating...country, have done an act beyond the Constitution." To cover the questions raised by this purchase Mr. Jefferson prepared two amendments to the Constitution,... | |
 | 1901 - 766 pages
...to the Constitution, approving and confirming an act which the Nation had not previously authorized. The Constitution has made no provision for our holding...fugitive occurrence which so much advances the good of his country, has done an act beyond the Constitution. The Legislature, in casting behind them metaphysical... | |
 | 1901 - 1234 pages
...amendment of the Constitution authorizing their receiving the province INTO THE UNION " (p. 35). " The Constitution has made no provision for our holding...for incorporating foreign nations into our Union." " I think it would be safer not to permit the enlargement of the Union but l>y amendment of the Constitution."... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1901 - 648 pages
...the people an amendment of the Constitution authorizing their receiving the province into the Union." "The Constitution has made no provision for our holding...for incorporating foreign nations into our Union." " I think it would be safer not to permit the enlargement of the Union but by amendment of the Constitution."... | |
 | William Eleroy Curtis - 1901 - 458 pages
...and confirming an act which the nation had not previously authorized. The Constitution," he said, " has made no provision for our holding foreign territory,...for incorporating foreign nations into our Union," but he was confident that the people would justify it because " it so much advances the good of the... | |
 | Francis Augustus Brooks - 1901 - 32 pages
...had no power to treat for the purchase of Louisiana, stating, as he did, that "the Constitution had made no provision for our holding foreign territory,...for incorporating foreign nations into our Union. " President Jefferson held that the government of the United States was one of limited powers, and... | |
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The Constitution has made no provision for our holding foreign territory, still less for incorporating foreign nations into our Union. The executive in seizing the fugitive occurrence which so much advances the good of their country, have done an act... 
