 | Massachusetts. General Court. Senate - 1842 - 980 pages
...States so formed, shall be distinct republican States, and admitted members of the federal Union, having the same rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence, as the other States." We come now to our own State. On 9th August, 1787, South Carolina, in the preamble, speaks of the invitation... | |
 | John Brown Dillon - Indiana - 1843 - 482 pages
...states so formed shall be distinct republican states, and admitted members of the federal union; having the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other states. That the necessary and reasonable expenses incurred by Virginia, in subduing any British posts, or in maintaining... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1844 - 440 pages
...acquired "shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States, and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become...sovereignty, freedom, and independence as the other States." And the same objects and conditions were also expressly stipulated by several of the States in their... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature. Senate - 1846 - 272 pages
...statute and cession of Virginia the fundamental condition of the '.rust, that the new states shall have "the same rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence, as the other states." To maintain such a doctrine is to deny that Michigan has been admitted into the Union "on an equal... | |
 | William Thompson Howell - Mines and mineral resources - 1846 - 40 pages
...statute and cession of Virginia, the fundamental condition of the trust, that the new states shall have "the same rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence as the other states." To maintain such a doctrine is to deny that Michigan has been admitted into the Union "on an equal... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - Michigan - 1846 - 276 pages
...the statute and cession of Virginia the fundamental condition of the trust, that the new states shall have "the same rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence, as the other stales." To maintain such a doctrine is to deny that Michigan has been admitted into the Union "on... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature. House of Representatives - Legislative journals - 1846 - 806 pages
...deed of cession, Virginia stipulates that the territory conveyed shall be formed into states "having the same rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence, as the other states." On the construction claimed by our neighbors, our state is not, as we have shown, either sovereign,... | |
 | Jacob Burnet - Northwest, Old - 1847 - 570 pages
...express provision, in the act of cession, that the States to be formed in the ceded Territory " should have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other States." It was believed, that the inhabitants of the district, which was one of the divisions of the ceded... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Hall - Real property - 1847 - 480 pages
...States so formed shall be distinct republican States, and admitted members of the Federal Union ; having the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other States. " That the necessary and reasonable expenses incurred by this State in subduing any British posts, or in maintaining... | |
 | Jacob Burnet - History - 1847 - 532 pages
...so formed, shall be republican States, and severally admitted members of the federal Union ; having the same rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence, as the other States." Now, what were the rights of that character, possessed by the other States, under the old Confederation?... | |
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September last, shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States, and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union, and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence,... 
