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... the first time have been definitively determined by the bench . The adjudged cases having now become so very numerous , the author has omitted , in the present edition , a * to give them all in an Appendix , as they PREFACE .
... the first time have been definitively determined by the bench . The adjudged cases having now become so very numerous , the author has omitted , in the present edition , a * to give them all in an Appendix , as they PREFACE .
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Joseph Kinnicut Angell. to give them all in an Appendix , as they were given in the preceding edition . There are ... gives to it an additional interest . The next case is that of Martin et al . , plaintiffs in error , v . Waddell ...
Joseph Kinnicut Angell. to give them all in an Appendix , as they were given in the preceding edition . There are ... gives to it an additional interest . The next case is that of Martin et al . , plaintiffs in error , v . Waddell ...
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... give any decided opinion on this point , because , in the first place , if there was any weight in his suggestion , the legislature of the State could at any time , should it be deemed necessary , define with greater precision the ...
... give any decided opinion on this point , because , in the first place , if there was any weight in his suggestion , the legislature of the State could at any time , should it be deemed necessary , define with greater precision the ...
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... gives consent rather than denial . The authority of Brac- ton , he contends , to make use of the shore , might be deemed good authority for all such customary uses made of it as are uncontradicted by the books , and not incompatible ...
... gives consent rather than denial . The authority of Brac- ton , he contends , to make use of the shore , might be deemed good authority for all such customary uses made of it as are uncontradicted by the books , and not incompatible ...
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... give a con- struction of the act of Congress , of 1824 , under which the plaintiff claimed ; but considered the ' East Haven v . Hemingway , 7 Conn . R. 186 . * Middletown v . Brace , 8 Conn . R. 222 . * City of Mobile v . Eslava , 16 ...
... give a con- struction of the act of Congress , of 1824 , under which the plaintiff claimed ; but considered the ' East Haven v . Hemingway , 7 Conn . R. 186 . * Middletown v . Brace , 8 Conn . R. 222 . * City of Mobile v . Eslava , 16 ...
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Page cxxxviii - If, as has always been understood, the sovereignty of congress, though limited to specified objects, is plenary as to those objects, the power over commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, is vested in congress as absolutely as it would be in a single government, having in its constitution the same restrictions on the exercise of the power as are found in the constitution of the United States.
Page lxxiv - Hudson's river, and all the lands from the west side of Connecticut river, to the east side of Delaware bay.
Page cxxvi - ... and that the States so formed shall be distinct republican States, and admitted members of the Federal Union ; having the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other States.
Page 62 - If Congress had passed any act which bore upon the case, any act in execution of the power to regulate commerce, the object of which was to control State legislation over those small navigable creeks into which the tide flows...
Page cxxvi - Virginia inclusive according to their usual respective proportions in the general charge and expenditure and shall be faithfully and bona fide disposed of for that purpose and for no other use or purpose whatsoever.
Page cxxvii - And whenever any of the said states shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such state shall be admitted, by its delegates, into the Congress of the United States, on an equal footing with the original states, in all respects whatever, and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and state government...
Page cxxxvii - It is the power to regulate; that is, to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed. This power, like all others vested in Congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations, other than are prescribed in the constitution.
Page cxxxvii - Mississippi, and the navigable waters leading into the same, shall be common highways, and forever free as well to the inhabitants of said State, as to all other citizens of the United States, without any tax, duty, impost, or toll therefor, imposed by the said State of Iowa.
Page xlvi - ... whatsoever to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding. In witness whereof we have caused these our letters to be made patent. Witness ourself at Westminster, the twelfth day of March, in the sixteenth year of our reign. By the King, Howard.
Page cxxvii - ... with the same privileges, and in the same manner as is provided in the ordinance of congress of the thirteenth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, for the government of the western territory of the United States; which ordinance shall, in all its parts, extend to the territory contained in the present act of cession, that article only excepted which forbids slavery.