 | Joseph Blunt - History - 1835 - 624 pages
...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. Tlie usage of the world is, if a nation be not en irely subdued, to consider the holding of conquered... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - History - 1830 - 628 pages
...government of thn Union, the powers of making war, and of making treaties ; consequently, th:tt government possesses the power of acquiring territory, either by conquest or by treaty. The usage of the world is, ifa nation be not en-irely subdued, to consider the holding of conquered... | |
 | Benjamin Lundy - 1836 - 108 pages
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 | Robert Mayo - Jackson, Andrew - 1839 - 234 pages
...government of the Union, the power of making war and of making treaties. Consequently that government possesses the power of acquiring territory, either by conquest or by treaty, [which power and right of acquisition are inseparably incident to the sovereignty thereby conferred.]... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...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. The usage of the world is, if a nation be not entirely subdued, to consider the holding of conquered... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1844 - 440 pages
...government of the Union the powers of making war and of making Untie.- ; consequently that government possesses the power of acquiring territory either by conquest or by treaty ." 28rH CONG SD SESS. Annexation of Texas — Mr. Tibbatis. H. of Reps. In the argument of that case... | |
 | United States - Session laws - 1846 - 1068 pages
...government of the United States the power of making war and of making treaties. Consequently that government 0 The American Insurance Company v. 356 bales of Cotton, 1 Peters, 542. The usage of the world is, if... | |
 | Henry Wheaton, William Beach Lawrence - International law - 1855 - 942 pages
...the Union the powers of making war and of making treaties; and, consequently, that that government possesses the power of acquiring territory, either by conquest or by treaty. And it was conceded in the argument, that the third section of the fourth article of the Constitution,... | |
 | Daniel Gardner - International and municipal law - 1860 - 740 pages
...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." He then proceeds to say, that such conquest or cession only affects the political relations of the... | |
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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. 
