 | Calvin Townsend - United States - 1869 - 396 pages
...States, shall be deemed and taken to be a citizen." ART. X. —TERRITORY. 1. GOVERNMENT. — To make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory belonging to the United States. (76) 2. SEAT OF GOVERNMENT. — To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such... | |
 | Calvin Townsend - Constitutional law - 1869 - 600 pages
...States, shall be deemed and taken to be a citizen." ART. X. — TEEEITOEY. 1. GOVERNMENT. — To make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory belonging to the United States. 76. 2. SEAT OP GOVERNMENT. — To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over such... | |
 | Law - 1901 - 510 pages
...which .exists in the government," or in virtue of the teiritorial clause of the Constitution; that the jurisdiction with which they are invested is not a part of judicial power of the Constitution, but is conferred by congress, in the exercise of those general... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - Electronic books - 1872 - 676 pages
...sovereignty which exists in the Government, or in virtue of that clause which enables Congress to make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory belonging to the United States." It has been said that the construction given to this clanse is new, and now for the first time brought... | |
 | United States. Department of Justice - Attorneys general's opinions - 1902 - 768 pages
...ratification of the treaty of peace, until Congress, exercising the power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory belonging to the United States, passed the act entitled "An act temporarily to provide revenues and a civil government for Porto Rico,... | |
 | Law - 1921 - 500 pages
...the Constitution. Chief Justice Marshall pointed out the distinction in an early case as follows : "The jurisdiction with which they are invested is not a part of that judicial power which is denned in the 3rd article of the Constitution, but is conferred by Congress, in the execution of these... | |
 | Henry Flanders - Constitutional law - 1874 - 296 pages
...courts, created in virtue of the sovereignty which exists in the government over its territories ; and the jurisdiction with which they are invested is not a part of the judicial power which the Constitution contemplates. Hence Congress may limit the tenure of office... | |
 | Henry Flanders - Constitutional law - 1874 - 324 pages
...courts, created in virtue of the sovereignty which exists in the government over its territories ; and the jurisdiction with which they are invested is not a part of the judicial power which the Constitution contemplates. Hence Congress may limit the tenure of office... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Samuel Freeman Miller - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 848 pages
...sovereignty which exists in the government, or in virtue of that clause which enables congress to make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory belonging to the United States." Dred Scott v. Sandford. [OPINION OF THE COURT. It has been said that the construction given to this... | |
 | Law - 1877 - 510 pages
...Law, 350, and Story's Const., § 1229. A second provision gives to Congress the power to "make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory * * * belonging to the United States." This has been construed to mean absolute and exclusive jurisdiction over this entire territory, except... | |
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They are legislative courts, created in virtue of the general right of sovereignty which exists in the government, or in virtue of that clause which enables Congress to make all needful rules and regulations, respecting the territory belonging to the... 
