 | 1839 - 358 páginas
...extent of territory, etc., and that the states so formed shall be distinct, republican states, and admitted members of the federal Union; having the...sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other states." Now what were the rights of that character, possessed by the other states, under the old confederation?... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - 1840 - 632 páginas
...common good. As the most operative inducement to such cessions; and also that when ceded, those lands might be rendered the more desirable, and consequently...articles of compact, made irrevocable without common co»»ent, provision was made for the immediate formation of a certain number of states within the... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature. Senate - 1840 - 728 páginas
...variety of positive terms, that " the states so formed shall be distinct republican states, and shall be admitted members of the federal Union, having the...sovereignty, freedom and independence, as the other states." And are these high attributes in our case, to be illustrated thus? Why, we may almost as fitly seek... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature. House of Representatives - 1840 - 618 páginas
...variety of positive terms, that " the states so formed, shall be distinct republican states, and shall be admitted members of the federal union, having the...sovereignty, freedom and independence, as the other states." And are these high attributes in our case to be illustrated thus! Why, we may almost as fitly seek... | |
 | Massachusetts. General Court. Senate - 1842 - 980 páginas
...circumstances will admit ; and that the States so formed, shall be distinct republican States, and admitted members of the federal Union, having the...sovereignty, freedom and independence, as the other States." We come now to our own State. On 9th August, 1787, South Carolina, in the preamble, speaks of the invitation... | |
 | John Brown Dillon - 1843 - 482 páginas
...as circumstances will admit: and that the states so formed shall be distinct republican states, and admitted members of the federal union; having the...sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other states. That the necessary and reasonable expenses incurred by Virginia, in subduing any British posts, or... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1845 - 852 páginas
...thereto as circumstances will admit : and that the states so formed shall be republican states and admitted members of the federal union, having the...sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other states.'1 And the delegates conclude the deed thus: "Now know ye, "that we, the said Thomas Jefferson,... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature. Senate - 1846 - 272 páginas
...thereto as circumstances will admit; and that the states so formed shall be republican states, and admitted members of the federal union, having the...sovereignty, freedom and independence as the other states. The delegates nppointed by said statute conclude the deed of cession thus: " Now know ye, ihat we,... | |
 | James Handasyd Perkins - 1846 - 642 páginas
...admit: and that the States so formed shall be distinct republican States, and admitted members of llie Federal Union, having the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other States. That the reasonable and necessary expenses incurred by this State in subduing any British posts, or... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - 1846 - 276 páginas
...that the states so formed shall be republican states, and admitted members of the fede- «• 1 i ral union, having the same rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence as the other states. The delegates nppointed by said statute conclude the deed of cession thus: " Now know ye, that we,... | |
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September last, shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence... 
