Pictorial History of America's New Possessions: The Isthmian Canals, and the Problem of Expansion ... with Chapters on the Policy of American Expansion, Volume 1

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Dominion Company, 1899 - 681 páginas
 

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Página 673 - not established there shall be inviolably respected. The present owners, the heirs of these, and all Mexicans who may hereafter acquire said property by contract shall enjoy with respect to it guaranties equally ample as if the same belonged to citizens of the United States.
Página 649 - not previously authorized. 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, has done an act beyond the Constitution.
Página 652 - 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.
Página 670 - 'The inhabitants of the territories which His Catholic Majesty cedes to the United States by this treaty shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States as soon as may be consistent with the principles of the Federal Constitution, and admitted to the enjoyment of all the privileges, rights, and immunities of the citizens of the United States.
Página 664 - judicial powers exercised by the officers of the existing government of the same shall be vested in such person and persons, and shall be exercised in such manner, as the President of the United States shall direct for maintaining and protecting the inhabitants of Louisiana in the full enjoyment of their liberty, property, and religion.
Página 664 - person and persons, and shall be exercised in such manner, as the President of the United States shall direct for maintaining and protecting the inhabitants of Louisiana in the full enjoyment of their liberty, property, and religion.
Página 666 - the trial shall be likewise by jury. In the ninth article of the amendments to the Constitution we find the following words: "In suits at common law where the value in controversy shall exceed $20 the right of trial by jury shall be preserved.
Página 663 - be, and he is hereby, authorized to take possession of and occupy the territory ceded by France to the United States by the treaty concluded at Paris on the 30th of April last between the two nations; and that he may for that purpose, and in order to maintain in the said
Página 650 - But when I consider that the limits of the United States are precisely fixed by the treaty of 1783, that the Constitution expressly declares itself to be made for the United States, I can not help believing that the intention was not to permit Congress to admit into the Union new States which should be formed out