The Proceedings of the Colorado Scientific Society, Volume 9

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Colorado Scientific Society., 1908

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Page 326 - By the preceding course of reasoning we have arrived at these general conclusions.: First, the shores of navigable waters, and the soils under them, were not granted by the Constitution to the United States, but were reserved to the States respectively. Secondly, the new States have the same rights, sovereignty, and jurisdiction over this subject as the original States.
Page 329 - States, such stipulation would have been void and inoperative; because the United States have no constitutional capacity to exercise municipal jurisdiction, sovereignty, or eminent domain, within the limits of a State or elsewhere, except in the cases in which it is expressly granted.
Page 315 - But in view of the complex system of government which exists in this country, " presenting," as this court, speaking by Chief Justice Marshall, has said, " the rare and difficult scheme of one general government, whose action extends over the whole, but which possesses only certain enumerated powers, and of numerous state governments, which retain and exercise all powers not delegated to the Union...
Page 326 - ... **it appears to us that few public interests are more obvious, indisputable and independent of particular theory than the interest of the public of a State to maintain the rivers that are wholly within it substantially undiminished, except by such drafts upon them as the guardian of the public welfare may permit for the purpose of turning them to a more perfect use.
Page 173 - Nor shall anything herein prohibit any person from entering upon such forest reservations for all proper and lawful purposes, including that of prospecting, locating, and developing the mineral resources thereof: Provided, That such persons comply with the rules and regulations covering such forest reservations.
Page 329 - That the people inhabiting said proposed State do agree and declare that they forever disclaim all right and title to the unappropriated public lands lying within the boundaries thereof...
Page 321 - This right originated in voluntary surrenders made by several of the old States of their waste and unappropriated lands to the United States, under a resolution of the old Congress, of the...
Page 329 - ... domain, which Georgia possessed at the date of the cession, except so far as this right was diminished by the public lands remaining in the possession and under the control of the United States, for the temporary purposes provided for in the deed of cession, and the legislative acts connected with it. Nothing remained to the United States, according to the terms of the agreement, but the public lands.
Page 326 - We think a proper examination of this subject will show that the United States never held any municipal sovereignty, jurisdiction, or right of soil, in and to the territory of which Alabama or any of the new states were formed; except for temporary purposes...
Page 119 - According to Rochard, the economic value of an individual " is what he has cost his family, the community, or the State for his living, development, and education. It is the loan which the individual has made from the social capital in order to reach the age when he can restore it by his labor.

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