 Congress is supreme, and for the purposes of this department of its governmental authority has all the powers of the people of the United States, except such as have been expressly or by implication reserved in the prohibitions of the Constitution.  The Diamond Anniversary Volume - Page 42by Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) - 1899 - 359 pagesFull view - About this book
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Elections - 1883 - 706 pages
...authorities, bnt Congress is supreme, and for the purposes of this department of its governmental authority has all the powers of the people of the United States,...reserved in the prohibitions of the Constitution. • • • It may do for the Territories what the people under the Constitution of the United States... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1883 - 716 pages
...authorities, but Congress is supreme, and for the purposes of this department of its governmental authority has all the powers of the people of the United States,...reserved in the prohibitions of the Constitution. « » » It. may do for the Territories what the people under the Constitution of the United States... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 1088 pages
...absolute. "Congress is supreme, and, for the purposes of this department of its governmental authority, has all the powers of the people of the United States,...reserved in the prohibitions of the constitution. * * * It has full and complete legislative authority over the people of territories and all the departments... | |
 | Indians of North America - 1888 - 558 pages
...is supreme, and for the purposes of this department of its governmental authority has all the powers of the United States, except such as have been expressly,...reserved in the prohibitions of the Constitution." 2. As regards the reservations in both the Territories and the States, this power is found in the authority... | |
 | Charles-Joseph-Félix Brunet, Charles Brunet - France - 1890 - 1204 pages
...authorities; but Congress is supreme, and for the purposes of this department of its governmental authority has all the powers of the people of the United States,...reserved in the prohibitions of the Constitution. * * * Congress may not onlv abrogate laws of the Territorial legislatures, but it may itself legislate... | |
 | United States. Department of Justice - Attorneys general's opinions - 1891 - 816 pages
...129-133) that "Congress is supreme, and for the purposes of this department of its governmental anthority has all the powers of the people of the United States,...reserved in the prohibitions of the Constitution. * * * Such a power [to amend the acts of Territorial legislatures] is an incident of sovereignty, and... | |
 | Jabez Gridley Sutherland - Law - 1891 - 836 pages
...but are 2 Whart Am. L. § 464. subordinate and limited parts of one 2 First National Bank v. Yankton, powers of the people of the United States, except...reserved in the prohibitions of the constitution. In the organic act of Dakota there was no express reservation of the power in congress to amend the... | |
 | United States. Department of Justice - Administrative law - 1891 - 808 pages
...department of its governmental authority has all the powers of the people of the United States, exceptsuch as have been expressly or by implication reserved in the prohibitions of the Constitution. * * * Such a power [to amend the acts of Territorial legislatures] is an incident of sovereignty, and... | |
 | Henry Campbell Black - Constitutional law - 1897 - 792 pages
...authorities; but congress is supreme, and for the purposes of this department of its governmental authority, has all the powers of the people of the United States, except such a? have been expressly or by implication reserved In the prohibitions of the constitution."4 The District... | |
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