 | Charles Alexander Gardiner - United States - 1899 - 66 pages
...acquire is also derived from the enumerated constitutional powers to declare war and to make treaties. " The Constitution confers absolutely on the government...the powers of making war and of making treaties," said Chief Justice Marshall, first advancing the theory ; " consequently that government possesses... | |
 | Marion Leonidas - Philippines - 1899 - 226 pages
...said: ' The Constitution confers absolutely on the government of the union the power of making. war and making treaties; consequently that government possesses...acquiring territory either by conquest or by treaty.' u That should be clear enough for any copperhead. The Constitution confers the 4 right of acquiring... | |
 | 1899 - 898 pages
...Constitutional law. — The Constitution confers absolutely on the Union the powers of making war and treaties; consequently that government possesses the...acquiring territory either by conquest or by treaty,, p. 542. Cited in Nelson v. United States, 30 Fed. 115, 12 Sawy. 288, and Stewart v. Kahn, 11 Wall.... | |
 | Emlin McClain - Constitutional law - 1900 - 1126 pages
...question the court should take into view the relation in which Florida stands to the United States. The constitution confers absolutely on the government...acquiring territory, either by conquest or by treaty. The usage of the world is, if a nation be not entirely subdued, to consider the holding of conquered... | |
 | Joseph Culbertson Clayton - Campaign literature - 1900 - 42 pages
...of the territory of Florida, which had recently been acquired by cession from Spain. Said Marshall: "The Constitution confers absolutely on the Government...acquiring territory, either by conquest or by treaty. The usage of the world is. if a nation be not entirely subdued, to consider the holding of conquered... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1900 - 778 pages
...Insurance Company v. Canter (\ Pet. 542), Mr. Marshall pronounced the following concise decision: " The Constitution confers absolutely on the government...acquiring territory either by conquest or by treaty." A generation later the same question arose in the celebrated Dred Scott case. In the opinion of the... | |
 | American Academy of Political and Social Science - Political science - 1900 - 552 pages
...Justice Marshall, took exactly the same view, in the case of the American Insurance Co. v. Canter.1 " The constitution confers absolutely on the government...Union the powers of making war and of making treaties ; 1 1 Pet. 542. consequently that government possesses the power of acquiring territory either by conquest... | |
 | J. A. JAMES PH.D., A. H. SANFORD, M.A. - 1901 - 468 pages
...Justice, for holding a different view. This is found in a decision of Chief Justice Marshall, who said, " The Constitution confers absolutely on the government...acquiring territory, either by conquest or by treaty." The circumstances attending the acquisition of Porto Rico and the Philippines, and the peculiar character... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 648 pages
...question, the court should take into view the relation in which Florida stands to the United States. The Constitution confers absolutely on the government...acquiring territory, either by conquest or by treaty. The usage of the world is, if a nation be not entirely subdued, to consider the holding of conquered... | |
 | Washington State Bar Association - 1901 - 142 pages
...Gray also gives a concurring opinion, quoting Marshall, CJ, in the Canter case (1828) 1 Pet, 511, 542. "The Constitution confers absolutely on the government...acquiring territory either by conquest or by treaty. The usage of the world is, if a nation be not entirely subdued, to consider the holding of conquered... | |
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The constitution confers absolutely on the government of the union the powers of making war, and of making treaties ; consequently, that government possesses the power of acquiring territory, either by conquest or by treaty. 
