That the Constitution confers upon Congress sovereign power over the Territories of the United States for their government; and that in the exercise of this power it is both the right and the duty of Congress to prohibit in the Territories those twin... The Tribune Almanac and Political Register - Page 191874Full view - About this book
| Henry Harrison Smith - Republican National Convention - 1896 - 136 pages
...Territory of the United States, while the present constitution shall be maintained. Resolved, That the Constitution confers upon Congress sovereign power...Territories of the United States for their government, and that in the exercise of this power, it is both the right and the imperative duty of Congress to prohibit... | |
| Albert Shaw - Periodicals - 1900
...points within the States. We seem again to be reading the Republican platform of 1856 : " Resolved, That the Constitution confers upon Congress sovereign power...Territories of the United States for their government." CAN THE CONSTITUTION BE "EXTENDED"? Among the curious features of this debate is the controversy as... | |
| Ida Husted Harper - Women - 1898 - 598 pages
...widows, and by the election and appointment of women to the superintendence of education, charities and other public trusts. The honest demands of this class...should be treated with respectful consideration." In a r letter from Mrs. Duniway, of Oregon, she says, " Well, the Republicans have thickened the old... | |
| Joseph Patterson Smith - 1898 - 1180 pages
...in any Territory of the United States, while the present Constitution shall be maintained. 2. That n < % | |q R ꉡ * ~]y]@ M dg ] ~ O... K 0v ` \ ^)? a G p t [ kǂ6] oZh: K 3 Ďr ~ that in the exercise of this power it is both the right and imperative duty of Congress to prohibit... | |
| Edward Stanwood - Presidents - 1898 - 614 pages
...present Constitution shall be maintained. Resolved, That the Constitution confers upon Congress severeign power over the Territories of the United States, for their government, and that in the exercise of this power it is both the right and the duty of Congress to prohibit in the... | |
| Alexander Kelly McClure - Political Science - 1900 - 510 pages
...widows, and by the appointment and election of women to the superintendence of education, charities, and other public trusts. The honest demands of this class...exercise of this power it is the right and duty of Congress to prohibit and extirpate, in the Territories, that relic of barbarism — polygamy ; and... | |
| William Livingstone - Michigan - 1900 - 596 pages
...widows and by the appointment and election of women to the superintendence of education, charities and other public trusts. The honest demands of this class...over the territories of the United States for their governments; and in the exercise of this power it is the right and duty of Congress to prohibit and... | |
| New York (State). Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1900 - 1420 pages
...election as superintendents of charities, education and other trusts ; and continued in these words : " The honest demands of this class of citizens for additional...should be treated with respectful consideration." Are the distinguished Republicans who are responsible for the work of this Convention willmg to carry... | |
| James Herron Hopkins - Political parties - 1900 - 492 pages
...any Territory of the United States while the present Constitution shall be maintained. Resolved, That the Constitution confers upon Congress sovereign power...Territories of the United States for their government; and that in the exercise of this power it is both the right and the duty of Congress to prohibit in the... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1900 - 730 pages
...resolution, which has become in political literature a familiar quotation, ran as follows: "Resolved, That the Constitution confers upon Congress sovereign power...Territories of the United States for their government ; and that in the exercise of this power it is both the right and the imperative duty of Congress to prohibit... | |
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