 | American Bar Association - 1905 - 980 páginas
...expressed in a single sentence by Marshall in American Insurance Company vs. Canter (1 Peters 511, 542) : " The Constitution confers absolutely on the government...acquiring territory either by conquest or by treaty." Thus was the whole doctrine of expansion of territory and the elasticity of the Constitution embraced... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1879 - 460 páginas
...vain. As was said by .Mr. Chief Justice Marshall, in the Am. Ins. Co. v. Canter, 1 Peters, 542 : " The Constitution confers absolutely on the Government...power of acquiring territory, either by conquest or treaty." See Cerri v. Pitot, 6 Cr. 336. And I add, it also possesses the power of governing it, when... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1882 - 1074 páginas
...confers, absolutely, on the government of the Union, the power of making war, and of making trcutlrB. Consequently, that government possesses the power of acquiring territory, either by conquest or by The usage of the world is, if a nation be not entirely subdued, to consider the holding of conquered... | |
 | John Norton Pomeroy - 1885 - 636 páginas
...view the relation in which Florida stands to the United States. The Constitution confers absolutelv on the government of the Union the powers of making war and of making i 1 Peters' R. 611. » Ibid. 642. treaties; consequently that government possesses the power of acquiring... | |
 | 1885 - 890 páginas
...Ibid. § 24S. Power to acquire territory.— It seems that inasmuch as the constitution has conferred absolutely on the government of the Union the powers of making war and making treaties, tl^at government possesses the power of acquiring territory either by treaty or conquest.... | |
 | John Norton Pomeroy - 1886 - 800 páginas
...question, the court should take into view the relation in which Florida stands to the United States. The Constitution confers absolutely on the government...acquiring territory either by conquest or by treaty." The court, in the celebrated case of Dred Scott, — which will be particularly referred to in the... | |
 | University of Michigan. Political Science Association, Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1889 - 308 páginas
...judicial control over legislative discretion. * See Randall's Life of Jefferson, Vol. III., pp. 69-81. " The Constitution confers absolutely on the government...acquiring territory, either by conquest or by treaty." I shall again refer to the general principles of construction adopted by Marshall; but something remains... | |
 | Bernard Moses - 1889 - 272 páginas
...Chief Justice Marshall, " the Constitution confers absolutely on the government of the Union the power of making war and of making treaties ; consequently...acquiring territory either by conquest or by treaty.'" If the acquisition is made by conquest, it is presumed that the result will be secured by treaty; and... | |
 | Bernard Moses - 1889 - 270 páginas
...Chief Justice Marshall, " the Constitution confers absolutely on the government of the Union the power of making war and of making treaties ; consequently that government possesses the power of acquir. ing territory either by conquest or by treaty."1 If the acquisition is made by conquest, it... | |
 | Charles-Joseph-Félix Brunet, Charles Brunet - 1890 - 1204 páginas
...question, the court should take into view the relation in which Florida stands to the United States. The Constitution confers absolutely on the Government...acquiring territory, either by conquest or by treaty. The usage of the world is, if a nation be not entirely subdued, to consider the holding of conquered... | |
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The constitution confers absolutely on the government of the union the powers of making war, and of making treaties ; consequently, that government possesses the power of acquiring territory, either by conquest or by treaty. 
