| Willis Fletcher Johnson - United States - 1903 - 392 pages
...application and exemplification of the constitutional provision that " Congress shall have power to make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory belonging to the United States." In some cases Congress enacts that territories shall be largely autonomous, with highly organized representative... | |
| Henry Hulbert Ingersoll - Corporation law - 1904 - 806 pages
...Congress. By the federal Constitution, Congress is invested with "power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory belonging to the United States," 12 and "to exercise exclusive legislation over such district as may become the seat of the government... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1960 - 1732 pages
...by virtue of that clause in the US Constitution, article IV, which empowers US Congress to make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory belonging to the United States. Justice White, in National Batik v. County of Yankton, 101 US 129, in 1879, decided that— it Is certainly... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1961 - 48 pages
...IV, section 3, clause 2 of the Constitution the Congress has the "power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory * * * belonging to the United States." In the Caribbean area these responsibilities have been exercised by Congress through legislation —... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1961 - 48 pages
...IV, section 3, clause 2 of the Constitution the Congress has the "power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory * * * belonging to the United States." In the Caribbean area these responsibilities have been exercised by Congress through legislation —... | |
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