 | Hugh Murray - 1839 - 646 páginas
...over such District, not exceeding ten miles square, as may, by cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States. The surface of the District is undulating, consisting in part of low marshes, interspersed with considerable... | |
 | Samuel Perkins - 1841 - 484 páginas
...over such district, not exceeding ten miles square, as may by cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States." The object of this provision was that Congress might hold its sessions, and the General Government exercise... | |
 | Samuel Perkins - 1842 - 500 páginas
...over such district, not exceeding ten miles square, as may by cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States." The object of this provision was that Congress might hold its sessions, and the General Government exercise... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1843 - 582 páginas
...Now, that section to which reference is thus expressly made in these deeds of cession, declares, that Congress shall have power " to exercise exclusive...of Congress, become the seat of Government of the United States." Nothing, therefore, as it seems to me, can be clearer than that the States making the... | |
 | Viator - 1848 - 84 páginas
...framed that part of section 8, art. 1, of the constitution of the United States, which declares that Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation...of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States, and to make all laws which may be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the... | |
 | 1848 - 694 páginas
...framed that part of section 8, art. 1, of the constitution of the United States, which declares that Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation...of Congress, become the seat of government of the United Slates, and to make all laws which may be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the... | |
 | Samuel Perkins - 1848 - 494 páginas
...over such district, not exceeding ten miles square, as may by cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States." The object of this provision was that Congress might hold its sessions, and the General Government exercise... | |
 | Jacob D. Wheeler - 1851 - 704 páginas
...thereof convicted, shal' suffer death." ' By the constitution of the United States (art. 1, sec. 8) : " Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation...of congress, become the seat of government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchr.scd. by consent of the legislature... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1851 - 580 páginas
...Now, that section, to which reference is thus expressly made in these deeds of cession, declares, that Congress shall have power " to exercise exclusive...of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States." Nothing, therefore, as it seems to me, can be clearer, than that the States making... | |
 | James Kent - 1851 - 706 páginas
...over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as might, by cession of particular states and the acceptance of congress, become the seat of government of the United States." The District of Columbia was created for that purpose, under cessions from the states of Maryland and Virginia.... | |
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The Congress shall have power ... to exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of Government of... 
