 | 1897 - 812 էջ
...citizens, occupying a territory of defined boundaries, and organized under a government sanctioned and limited by a written constitution, and established by the consent of the governed." In the same opinion, after declaring that the perpetuity and indissolubility of the Union by no means... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1869 - 144 էջ
...citizens, occupying a territory of defined boundaries, and organized under a government sanctioned and limited by a written- constitution, and established...the consent of the governed. It is the union of such *Mr. Justice Paterson, in Penhallow Admrs. 3 Ball., 93. Doane's States under a common constitution... | |
 | 1869 - 820 էջ
...citizens occupying a territory of defined boundaries, and organized under a government sanctioned and limited by a written constitution, and established by the consent of the governed. 3. But the term is also used to express the idea of a people or political community as distinguished... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1869 - 802 էջ
...citizens, occupying a territory of defined boundaries, and organized under a government sanctioned and limited by a written constitution, and established by the consent of the governed. 3. But the term is also used to express the idea of a people or political community, as distinguished... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1872
...citizens, occupying a territory of defined boundaries, and organized under a government sanctioned and limited by a written constitution, and established...the Consent of the governed. It is the union of such *Mr. Justice Paterson, in Penuallow vs. Doane's Admrs. 3 Dall., 93. States under a common constitution... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1870 - 800 էջ
...citizens, occupying a territory of defined boundaries, and organized under a government sanctioned and limited by a written constitution, and established by the consent of the governed. 8. But the term is also used to express the idea of a people or political community, as distinguished... | |
 | John Brown Dillon - 1871 - 156 էջ
...citizens, occupying a territxfcy of defined boundaries, and organized under a government sanctioned and limited by a written constitution, and established...States which compose it one people and one country." — Wallace's Reports, Vol. VII, pp. 720, 721. XVII. James Madison. James Madison opposed the views... | |
 | John Brown Dillon - 1871 - 148 էջ
...occupying a territory of defined boundaries, and organized under a government sanctioned and limited Tby a written constitution, and established by the consent...people and States which compose it one people and one country."—Wallace's Reports, Vol. VII, pp. 720, 721. XVII. James Madison. James Madison opposed the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1872 - 192 էջ
...citizens, occupying a territory of defined boundaries, and organized under a government sanctioned and limited by a written constitution, and established by the consent of the governed. But the term is also used to express the idea of a people or political community, as distinguished... | |
 | 1874 - 752 էջ
...citizens, occupying a territory of defined boundaries, and organized under a government sanctioned and limited by a written Constitution, and established...States which compose it, one people and one country." (Texas vs. White, 1 Wallace's Rep., 721.) In the same case, that court declares, " that the preservation... | |
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... state most frequently expresses the combined idea just noticed, of people, territory, and government. A state, in the ordinary sense of the Constitution, is a political community of free citizens, occupying a territory of defined boundaries, and organized... 
