 The Constitution has made no provision for our holding foreign territory, still less for incorporating foreign nations into our Union. The Executive, in seizing the fugitive occurrence which so much advances the good of their country, have done an act...  The Centennial History of Oregon, 1811-1912 - Page 265by Joseph Gaston - 1912Full view - About this book
 | 1856 - 634 pages
...in which it was proposed to be made, as a most unconstitutional act. ' The Constitution,' he says, ' has made no ' provision for our holding foreign territory, still less for incorpo' rating foreign nations into our Union.' To admit Louisiana, he adds in a letter to a friend,... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1830 - 692 pages
...tiie constitution, approving and confirming an act which the nation had not previously authorized. The constitution has made no provision for our holding...Executive, in seizing the fugitive occurrence which 30 much advances the good of the country, have done an act against the constitution." It is well known... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1829 - 582 pages
...to the constitution, approving and confirming an act which the nation bad not previously authorised. The constitution has made no provision for our holding...which so much advances the good of their country, have done an act beyond the constitution. The legislature in casting behind them metaphysical subtleties,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pages
...to the constitution, approving and confirming an act which the nation had not previously authorised. The constitution has made no provision for our holding...The executive, in seizing the fugitive occurrence whi h so much advances the good of their country, have done an act beyond the constitution. The legislature,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 554 pages
...to the constitution, approving and confirming an act which the nation had not previously authorised. The constitution has made no provision for our holding...The executive, in seizing the fugitive occurrence whi h so much advances the good of their country, have done an act beyond the constitution. The legislature,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1829 - 656 pages
...to the constitution, approving and confirming an act which the nation had not previously authorised. The constitution has made no provision for our holding...into our Union. The executive in seizing the fugitive occui r which so much advances the good of their country, have done an act beyond the constitution.... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1830 - 692 pages
...to the constitution approving and confirming an act which the nation had not previously authorized. United States Congress( D be had to no tribunal...first in point of time, to comply with the invita tile good of the country, have done an act against the constitution." It is not my intention to enter... | |
 | Timothy Pitkin - Commercial statistics - 1835 - 628 pages
...the constitution, approving and confirming an act, which the nation had not previously authorized. The constitution has made no provision for our holding...for incorporating foreign nations into our union." In one of his letters to Mr. Lincoln, then attorney General of the United States, he goes so far, as... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - Petition, Right of - 1838 - 144 pages
...to the Constitution, approving and confirming an act which the nation had not previously authorized. The Constitution has made no provision for our holding...which so much advances the good of their country, have done an act beyond the Constitution. The Legislature, in casting behind them metaphysical subtleties,... | |
 | Robert Mayo - Jackson, Andrew - 1839 - 246 pages
...to the constitution, approving and confirming an act which the nation had not previously authorized. The constitution has made no provision for our holding...which so much advances the good of their country, have done an act beyond the constitution. The legislature, in casting behind 'them metaphysical subtleties,... | |
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