| William Stephens Smith, Thomas Lloyd - Spain - 1807 - 340 pages
...confided the power of making it to their immediate representatives. They have therefore declared that " the congress shall have " power to declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, " and make rules concerning captures on land and water." But the wise men who framed... | |
| Encyclopaedia Americana - 1833 - 548 pages
...power to grant or withhold supplies. In the U. States, the constitution provides (ait. 1, sec. 8) that the congress shall have power to declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, raise and support armies, and provide and maintain a navy. It is not, in modern times,... | |
| Lysander Spooner - Slavery - 1845 - 168 pages
...the idea that that individual himself, and all he may possess, are the property of another. Fifth. " The congress shall have power to declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;" also " to raise and support armies... | |
| Francis Lieber - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1851 - 544 pages
...power to grant or withhold supplies. In the TJ. States, the constitution provides (ait. 1, sec. 8) that the congress shall have power to declare war, grant, letters of marque and reprisal, raise and support armies, and provide and maintain a navy. It is not, in modern times,... | |
| United States. Congress - United States - 1853 - 966 pages
...H-prisa! against the nation thereafter continuing 'in force its unlawful edicts." The Constitution says " The Congress shall have power to declare ' war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and ' make rules concerning captures on land or wa: ter ." The exercise of this authority,... | |
| United States. Congress - Law - 1853 - 968 pages
...against the nation thereafter continuing in force its unlawful edicts." The Constitution says, •' The Congress shall have power to declare war. grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land or wa' ter." The exercise of this authority,... | |
| Charles Woodward Stearns - Constitutional law - 1872 - 176 pages
...punish piracies and felonies, committed on the high seas, and offences against the law of nations. The Congress shall have power * * to declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water. The Congress shall have power *... | |
| Charles Woodward Stearns - 1872 - 166 pages
...* * to provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States.—Article I., 8, I. The Congress shall have power * * to declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water.—Article I., 8, II. The Congress... | |
| Charles Woodward Stearns - Constitutional law - 1872 - 172 pages
...* to provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States.— Article I., 8, i. The Congress shall have power * * to declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water.—Article I., 8, II. The Congress... | |
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