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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... "
Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late ... - Page 515
by Thomas Jefferson - 1829
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Opinions Delivered in the Insular Tariff Cases in the Supreme Court of the ...

United States. Supreme Court - Colonies - 1901 - 196 pages
...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 beyond the Constitution." To cover the questions raised by this purchase Mr. Jefferson prepared two amendments to the Constitution,...
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Congressional Serial Set, Issue 4171

United States - 1901 - 1234 pages
...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 beyond the Constitution. If this language stood bv itself and were the only utterance of Jefferson on the subject, it would...
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State Papers and Correspondence Bearing Upon the Purchase of the Territory ...

United States. Department of State - Australia - 1903 - 312 pages
...incorporating foreign nations into our Union. The executive in seizing the fugitive occurrence which so much advances the good of their country, have done...it, and throw themselves on their country for doing for them unauthorized, what we know they would have done for themselves had they been in a situation...
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John Marshall: Life, Character and Judicial Services as Portrayed ..., Volume 2

John Forrest Dillon - Judges - 1903 - 600 pages
..."The Executive in seizing the fugitive occurrence which so much advances the good of his country has done an act beyond the Constitution. The legislature...it, and throw themselves on their country for doing for them unauthorized what we know they would have done for themselves, had they been in a position...
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A Century of Expansion

Willis Fletcher Johnson - United States - 1903 - 392 pages
...practically the same to JC Breckenridge, adding : "The Executive, in seizing the fugitive occurrence which so much advances the good of their country, have done...Legislature, in casting behind them metaphysical subtleties, must ratify and pay for it, and throw themselves on their country for doing for them unauthorized what...
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A Century of Expansion

Willis Fletcher Johnson - United States - 1903 - 353 pages
...practically the same to JC Breckenridge, adding : " The Executive, in seizing the fugitive occurrence which so much advances the good of their country, have done...Legislature, in casting behind them metaphysical subtleties, must ratify and pay for it, and throw themselves on their country for doing for them unauthorized what...
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A CENTURY OF EXPANSION

WILLIS FLETCHER JOHNSON, A.M., L.H.D. - 1903 - 362 pages
...done an act beyond the Constitution. The Legislature, in casting behind them metaphysical subtleties, must ratify and pay for it, and throw themselves on their country for doing for them unauthorized what we know they would have done for themselves had they been in a situation...
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The Opening of the Mississippi: A Struggle for Supremacy in the American ...

Frederic Austin Ogg - Louisiana Purchase - 1904 - 702 pages
...executive, in seizing the fugitive occurrence which so much advances the good of their country, has done an act beyond the Constitution. The legislature,...it, and throw themselves on their country for doing for them unauthorized what we know they would have done for themselves had they been in a situation...
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The Louisiana Purchase and the Westward Movement, Volume 8

Curtis Manning Geer - Louisiana Purchase - 1904 - 646 pages
...foreign territory, still less for incorporating foreign nations into our Union. The Executive . . . has done an act beyond the Constitution. The legislature,...must ratify and pay for it, and throw themselves on the country for doing for them, unauthorized, what we know they would have done for themselves had...
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The History of North America, Volume 8

Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe - Indians of North America - 1904 - 586 pages
...foreign territory, still less for incorporating foreign nations into our Union. The Executive . . . has done an act beyond the Constitution. The legislature,...must ratify and pay for it, and throw themselves on the country for doing for them, unauthorized, what we know they would have done for themselves had...
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