 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1897 - 812 pages
...The Supreme Court has, since the end of the Civil War, defined a State in our Union of States as " a political community of free citizens, occupying...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 - Reconstruction - 1869 - 144 pages
...territory, and government. A State, in the ordinary sense of the Constitution, is a political «ommunity of free citizens, occupying a territory of defined...constitution, and established by the consent of the governed. It is the union of such *Mr. Justice Paterson, in Penhallow Admrs. 3 Ball., 93. Doane's States under... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1872
...territory, and government. A State, in the ordinary sense of the Constitution, is a political «ommunity of free citizens, occupying a territory of defined...constitution, and established by the Consent of the governed. It is the union of such *Mr. Justice Paterson, in Penuallow vs. Doane's Admrs. 3 Dall., 93. States... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1870 - 800 pages
...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 denned boundaries, and organized under a government sanctioned and limited by a written constitution,... | |
 | John Brown Dillon - Federal government - 1871 - 148 pages
...frequently expresses the comlbined idea just noticed, of people, territory, and government. A State, in the ordinary sense of the Constitution, is a political...organized under a government sanctioned and limited Tby a written constitution, and established by the consent of the governed. It is the union of such... | |
 | John Brown Dillon - States' rights (American politics) - 1871 - 156 pages
...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 territxfcy of defined boundaries, and organized under a government sanctioned and limited by a written... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Greenbacks - 1872 - 192 pages
...frequently expresses the combined idea just noticed, of people, territory, and government. A State, in the ordinary sense of the Constitution, is a political...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... | |
 | Law - 1874 - 752 pages
...communities of free citizens or electors. "A State," " ^it court, " in the ordinary sense of the (Federal) Constitution, is a political community of free citizens,...Constitution, and established by the consent of the governed. It is the union of such States, under a common Constitution, which forms the distinct and greater political... | |
 | Robert Bruce Warden - Governors - 1874 - 870 pages
...people, territory, and government. A State, in the ordinary sense of the Constitution, is a politcal community of free citizens, occupying a territory...constitution, and established by the consent of the governed. It is the Union of such States, under a common constitution, which forms the distinct and greater political... | |
 | Robert Bruce Warden - Governors - 1874 - 888 pages
...sense of the Constitution, is a politcal community of free citizens, occupying a territory of denned boundaries, and organized under a government sanctioned...constitution, and established by the consent of the governed. It is the Union of such States, under a common constitution, which forms the distinct and greater political... | |
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A state, in the ordinary sense of the Constitution, is a political community of free citizens, occupying a territory of defined boundaries, and organized under a government sanctioned and limited by a written constitution, and established by the consent... 
