Problems of Expansion: As Considered in Papers and AddressesCentury Company, 1900 - 294 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 7 - hence, can hide their blushes behind a copy of Lord Granville's letter. They may explain, if they like, with the classical excuse of Benedick, " When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married." Or if this Seems too frivolous
الصفحة 288 - Article III. Spain cedes to the United States the archipelago known as the Philippine Islands, and comprehending the islands lying within the following lines : A line running from west to east along or near the twentieth parallel of north latitude, and through the middle of the navigable channel of Bachti, from the one hundred and eighteenth
الصفحة 285 - of a treaty of peace which shall determine the control, disposition, and government of the Philippines. ARTICLE IV Spain will immediately evacuate Cuba, Porto Eico, and other islands now under Spanish sovereignty in the West Indies ; and
الصفحة 273 - is not only a Government, but it is a National Government, and the only Government in this country that has the character of nationality. . . . Such being the character of the General Government, it seems to be a self-evident proposition that it is invested with all those inherent and implied powers which, at the time of adopting the
الصفحة 273 - States . . . may extend its boundaries by conquest or treaty, and may demand the cession of territory as the condition of peace, in order to indemnify its citizens for the injuries they have suffered, or to reimburse the Government for the expenses of the war. But this can only be done by the treaty-making power or the legislative authority.
الصفحة 127 - of a century later. Article XIII provides that " neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." If the term " the United States," as used in the Constitution, really includes the Territories as an integral part, as Mr. Chief Justice Marshall said, what, then, does the Constitution mean by the
الصفحة 274 - have unequivocally asserted its rights of dominion over a country of which it is in possession and which it claims under a treaty, if the legislature has acted on the construction thus asserted, it is not in its own courts that this construction is to be denied. A question like this, respecting the boundaries of a nation, is