 | Thomas Starling Staples - Arkansas - 1923 - 466 pages
...established." 1 " Any civil government " which then existed in the states named was declared to be " provisional only, and in all respects subject to the paramount authority of the United States at any time to abolish, modify, control, or supersede the same." For the purpose of enforcing this contemplated... | |
 | Dunbar Rowland - Mississippi - 1925 - 932 pages
...stipulated : "That until the people of said rebel states shall be by law admitted to representation in the congress of the United States, any civil government...to the paramount authority of the United States, at any time to abolish, modify, control or supersede the same." President Johnson called the act, "in... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - United States - 1925 - 1090 pages
...civil governments already existing within them, though illegal, were to be permitted to stand; but as "provisional only, and in all respects subject to the paramount authority of the United States at any time to abolish, control, or supersede the same." Such was the process which was rigorously and... | |
 | Alexander Farish Robertson - Legislators - 1925 - 528 pages
...Act of Congress of March 2nd, 1867, declared that the civil government was provisional only, and was in all respects subject "to the paramount authority of the United States, at any time to abolish, modify, continue or suspend the same."1 On March 23rd, 1867, an act was passed... | |
 | William Cecil Pendleton - Virginia - 1927 - 640 pages
...provided: "That until the people of and said States shall be by law admitted to representation in Congress, any civil government which may exist therein shall...to the paramount authority of the United States, at any time, to abolish, modify, control or supersede the same." On the 6th of April, 1868, the civil... | |
 | William MacDonald - United States - 1926 - 742 pages
...the JJnited States, any civil governments which may exist therein shall be deemed prnvi'jjo.ml nnly, and in all respects subject to the paramount authority of the United States at any time to abolish, modify, control, or supersede the same; and in all elections to any office under... | |
 | American essays - 1901 - 972 pages
...governments already existing within them, though illegal, were to be permitted to stand ; but as " provisional only, and in all respects subject to the paramount authority of the United States at any time to abolish, control, or supersede the same." Such was the process which was rigorously and... | |
 | Economics - 1896 - 582 pages
...shall be by law admitted to representation in the Congress of the United States, any civil governments which may exist therein shall be deemed provisional...to the paramount authority of the United States at any time to abolish, modify, control, or supersede the same ; and in all elections to any office under... | |
 | Eric L. McKitrick - Reconstrucción (Estados Unidos 1863-1877) - 1988 - 550 pages
...principle to all officeholding and declared that prior to readmission any civil governments should be deemed "provisional only, and in all respects subject...to the paramount authority of the United States at any time, to abolish, modify, control, or supersede the same. . . ." The bill, with the Sherman, Wilson,... | |
 | David P. Currie - Law - 1992 - 518 pages
...keep the peace and punish offenders and declared that "any civil governments" in those states were "provisional only, and in all respects subject to the paramount authority of the United States." Id. § 6, 14 Stat. at 429. Tennessee, which was safely in Republican hands and had ratified the fourteenth... | |
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That, until the people of said rebel States shall be by law admitted to representation in the Congress of the United States, any civil government which may exist therein shall be deemed provisional only, and in all respects subject to the paramount authority... 
