Power of Congress to Dispose of U.S. Property: Hearings Before the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, Second Session, ... January 17, 18, 1978U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978 - 338 էջ |
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Էջ 49 - It would not be contended that it > extends so far as to authorize what the constitution forbids, or a change in the character of the government, or in that of one of the states, or a cession of any portion of the territory of the latter without its consent.
Էջ 225 - The United States, then, have unequivocally acceded to that great and broad rule by which its civilized inhabitants now hold this country. They hold, and assert in themselves, the title by which it was acquired. They maintain, as all others have maintained, that discovery gave an exclusive right to extinguish the Indian title of occupancy, either by purchase or by conquest; and gave also a right to such a degree of sovereignty as the circumstances of the people would allow them to exercise.
Էջ 161 - The treaty power, as expressed in the Constitution, is in terms unlimited except by those restraints which are found in that instrument against the action of the government or of its departments, and those arising from the nature of the government itself and of that of the States.
Էջ 226 - The Indian nations had always been considered as distinct, independent political communities, retaining their original natural rights, as the undisputed possessors of the soil, from time immemorial...
Էջ 102 - II which the United States would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign of the territory within which said lands and waters are located to the entire exclusion of the exercise by the Republic of Panama of any such sovereign rights, power or authority.
Էջ 196 - When the President takes measures incompatible with the expressed or implied will of Congress, his power is at its lowest ebb, for then he can rely upon his own constitutional powers minus any constitutional powers of Congress over the matter.
Էջ 159 - The Republic of Panama further grants to the United States in perpetuity the use, occupation and control...
Էջ 151 - Pending the making of such a proposal and affirmative action thereon, the United States will have the right to exercise all and any powers of administration, legislation and jurisdiction over the territory and inhabitants of these islands, including their territorial waters.
Էջ 228 - Territory, so long as such rights shall remain unextinguished by treaty between the United States and such Indians, or to include any territory which, by treaty with any Indian tribe, is not, without the consent of said tribe, to be included within the territorial limits or jurisdiction of any State or Territory...
Էջ 226 - However extravagant the pretension of converting the discovery of an inhabited country into conquest may appear, if the principle has been asserted in the first instance, and afterwards sustained, if a country has been acquired and held under it, if the property of the great mass of the community originates in it, it becomes the law of the land, and cannot be questioned...
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| Վերնագիր | Power of Congress to Dispose of U.S. Property: Hearings Before the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, Second Session, ... January 17, 18, 1978 Թողարկում 95,Մաս 32 of Serial, 95th Congress, United States Congress |
| Հեղինակ | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries |
| Հրատարակիչ | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978 |
| Length | 338 էջ |
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