...have had their voice in the election of the Government, which is to exercise authority over them ; as a municipal Legislature for local purposes, derived...their own suffrages, will of course be allowed them ; and as the authority of the Legislature of the State, and of the inhabitants of the ceded part of...

...have had their voice in the election of the government which is to exercise authority over them, as a municipal legislature for local purposes derived...their own suffrages will of course be allowed them * » * every imaginable objection seems to be obviated." Madison's idea was that the community should...

...have had their voice in the election of the government which is to exercise authority over them; as a municipal legislature for local purposes, derived from their own suffrages, will of course be aUowed them; and as the authority of the legislature of the State and of the inhabitants of the ceded...

...territory to be selected ; on the contrary, President Madison, in the Federalist, wrote : * * * As a municipal legislature for local purposes, derived...their own suffrages, will, of course, be allowed them * * *. President Jackson, in his annual message of December 6, 1831, made the following comment : I...

...inherited right of local self-government. On the contrary, Madison goes still further and states that a municipal legislature for local purposes, derived...from their own suffrages, will, of course, be allowed the residents at the seat of government. This opinion of Madison that the people here would be allowed...

...they, being thoroughly familiar with the American system of local self-government, should explain that a "municipal legislature for local purposes, derived...from their own suffrages, will of course be allowed" the inhabitants at the seat of government. And here again we find the Supreme Court of the United States...

...have had their voice in the election of the Government which is to exercise authority over them ; as a municipal legislature for local purposes, derived from their own suffrages, will of course he allowed them; and as the authority of the legislature of the State, and of the inhabitants of the...

...the hands of a single State. With respect to the inhabitants of the area to be set aside, he says : A municipal legislature for local purposes, derived...their own suffrages, will, of course, be allowed them. You will note the reference to the exercise of complete authority by every legislature of the Union...

...the hands of a single State. With respect to the inhabitants of the area to be set aside, he says: A municipal legislature for local purposes, derived...their own suffrages, will, of course, be allowed them. You will note the reference to the exercise of complete authority by every legislature of the Union...

...have had their voice in the election of the Government which is to exercise authority over them; as a municipal legislature for local purposes, derived...their own suffrages, will of course be allowed them * every imaginable objection seems to be obviated. Of course, the governments in Alexandria and Georgetown,...