 | Willis Fletcher Johnson - United States - 1903 - 392 pages
...the creation, exclusively, of the Legislative department and subject to its supervision and control. The United States, having rightfully acquired the...the only government which can impose laws upon them, has the entire dominion and sovereignty, national and municipal, federal and state." Thus this important... | |
 | WILLIS FLETCHER JOHNSON, A.M., L.H.D. - 1903 - 362 pages
...the creation, exclusively, of the Legislative department and subject to its supervision and control. The United States, having rightfully acquired the...the only government which can impose laws upon them, has the entire dominion and sovereignty, national and municipal, federal and state." Thus this important... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Insular Affairs, Charles Edward Magoon - Military occupation - 1903 - 832 pages
...derived from the Constitution. None springs from the inherent rights of individuals or communities. 108 By the Constitution, as is now well settled, the United...States, having rightfully acquired the Territories', and lieing the only government which can impose laws upon them, have the entire dominion and sovereignty,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1904 - 722 pages
...belonging to the United States is settled beyond controversy, and that Congress has plenary powers, national and municipal, Federal and state, over all...so long as they remain in a territorial condition. American Insurance Co. v. Canter, 1 Pet. 511, 542; Benner v. Porter, 9 How. 235, 242; Cross v. Harrison,... | |
 | William Franklin Willoughby - United States - 1905 - 356 pages
...supervision and control. The United States having rightfully acquired the territory and having become the only government which can impose laws upon them have the entire domain and sovereignty, national and municipal, Federal and State. It may legislate in accordance with... | |
 | U.S. Army Engineer School - Riparian rights - 1908 - 156 pages
...United States, unless the claim confirmed in terms embraces the land under the waters of the stream." By the Constitution, as is now well settled, the United...so long as they remain in a territorial condition : American Ins. Co. v. Canter, 1 Pet., 511, 542; Benner v. Porter, 9 How., 235, 242; Cross v. Harrison,... | |
 | Chrisenberry Lee Bates - Circuit courts - 1908 - 644 pages
...power.8 In one case, the court, discussing the power of the United States in the territories, said : "By the constitution, as is now well settled, the United States, having rightly acquired the territories, and being the only government which can impose laws upon them, have... | |
 | Whitelaw Reid - Digital images - 1913 - 342 pages
...organized under the Constitution nor subject to its complex distribution of the powers of government. The United States, having rightfully acquired the...the only government which can impose laws upon them, has the entire dominion and sovereignty, national and municipal, federal and state." In the light of... | |
 | Appellate courts - 1917 - 736 pages
...the United States, it was not strictly true, and, after a review of the authorities, concludes that: "By the Constitution, as Is now well settled, the...so long as they remain In a territorial condition. (Citing cases.) "We cannot doubt, therefore, that Congress has the power to make grants of lands below... | |
 | James Brown Scott - International law - 1922 - 1246 pages
...navigable waters in a Territory of the United States, it is evident that this is not strictly true. * * * By the Constitution, as is now well settled, the United...so long as they remain in a territorial condition. American Ins. Co. v. Canter, 1 Pet. 511, 542 [7 L. Ed. 242] ; Benner v. Porter, 9 How. 235, 242 [13... | |
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By the Constitution, as is now well settled, the United States, having rightfully acquired the Territories, and being the only Government which can impose laws upon them, have the entire dominion and sovereignty, national and municipal, Federal and State,... 
