 | Joseph Blunt - History - 1830 - 628 pages
...jurisdiction of any particular state, and is within the power and jurisdiction of the United States. The rigb to govern may be the inevitable consequence of the...to acquire territory. Whichever may be the source whence the power is derived, the possession of it is unquestioned. In execution of it, Congress, in... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...from the facts that it is not within the jurisdiction of any particular state, and 1 P«t. 542. is within the power and jurisdiction of the United States....to acquire territory. Whichever may be the source whence the power is derived, the possession of it is unquestioned. In execution of it, congress, in... | |
 | Oliver Cromwell Gardiner - Campaign literature - 1848 - 356 pages
...result necessarily from the facts that it is not within the jurisdiction of any particular state, and is within the power and jurisdiction of the United States....to acquire territory. Whichever may be the source whence the power is derived, its possession is unquestioned." — Chief Justice Marshall ; The American... | |
 | California. Constitutional Convention, John Ross Browne - California - 1850 - 534 pages
...neccessarii}- from the fact, that it is not within the jurisdiction of any particular State, and is within the power and jurisdiction of the United States....to acquire territory. Whichever may be the source whence the power is derived, the possession of it is unquestioned." This decision shows plainly and... | |
 | John Ross Browne - Constitutional conventions - 1850 - 538 pages
...neceessarily from the fact, that it is not within the jurisdiction of any particular State, and is within the power and jurisdiction of the United States. The right to govern may be the inevitable eorisequence of the right to acquire territory. Whichever may be the source whence the power is derived,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1855 - 702 pages
...result necessarily from the facts that it is not within the jurisdiction of any particular State, and is within the power and jurisdiction of the United States. The right to govern may be the natural consequences of the right to acquire territory." American Insurance Co. v. Canter, 1 Peters,... | |
 | Henry Sheffie Geyer - Kansas - 1856 - 40 pages
...result necessarily f/om the fact, that it is not within the jurisdiction of a particular State, and is within the power and jurisdiction of the United States....consequence of the right to acquire territory " Whichever be the source from whence the power is derived, the possession of it is unquestionable." Afterwards... | |
 | United States - 1856 - 654 pages
...respecting the Territory or ' other property belongingto the United States.' " The Court adds, that " the right to govern may ' be the inevitable consequence...' acquire territory. Whichever may be the ' source whence the power in derived, the posses1 tion of it is unquestioned." The Court finally decides the... | |
 | Thomas Hart Benton - Fugitive slave law - 1857 - 214 pages
...necessarily, from the facts that it is not within the jurisdiction of any particular State, and is within the power and jurisdiction of the United States....territory. Whichever may be the source from which the power is derived, the possession of it is unquestionable." " The right to govern may be the inevitable consequence... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Chew Howard - African Americans - 1857 - 260 pages
...within the jurisdiction of any parDred Scott v. Sandford. [OPINION OF THH COUBT. ticular State, and is within the power and jurisdiction of the United States....territory. Whichever may be the source from which the power is derived, the possession of it is unquestionable." It is thus clear, from the whole opinion on this... | |
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Perhaps the power of governing a territory belonging to the United States which has not by becoming a state acquired the means of self-government may result necessarily from the facts that it is not within the jurisdiction of any particular state, and... 
