 | University of Minnesota - 1913 - 402 páginas
...honor."1 But it was not without effect. In section eight of article two of the Constitution we read : "The congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation...of congress, become the seat of government of the United States." Having exclusive legislative power the national government has of course had absofute... | |
 | 1916 - 1092 páginas
...development. THE FACTS AS SHOWN BY THE OFFICAL BECOBDS. The Constitution contains a provision that Congress shall have power — " To exercise exclusive...of Congress, become the seat of Government of the United States." (US Constitution, art. 1, sec. 8, clause 1.) WHY THIS PBOVI8ION WAS ADOPTED. This power... | |
 | William Bennett Munro - 1919 - 680 páginas
...state. At Madison's suggestion, accordingly, the constitution was worded to provide that Congress should have power "to exercise exclusive legislation in all...of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States." * The selection of the exact place was left for the future, but with 1 The best full... | |
 | 1920 - 568 páginas
...Congress, Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, adopted 1787, and ratified by the States, as follows: "Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation...of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States, end to exercise like authority over all places purchased, by the consent of the legislature... | |
 | 1923 - 1144 páginas
...government. This provision is contained in Article i, Section 8 of the Constitution as follows: " The Congress shall have Power ... to exercise exclusive...the Seat of Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in... | |
 | 1899 - 1172 páginas
...self-governing, but are governed by Congress. Thus the Constitution, Article I, sections 8-17, provides that Congress shall have power — To exercise exclusive...of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States. Article IV, Sections 3 — 2, also provides that— Congress shall have power to dispose... | |
 | United States. National Sesquicentennial Exhibition Commission - 1927 - 576 páginas
...adopted in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787, provides in Article I, Section 8, paragraph 17, that the Congress shall have power — "To exercise exclusive...the seat of Government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the State in... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on a Judiciary - 1941 - 332 páginas
...as part of clause 17, section 8, article I of the Constitution. This provision declared that : The Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation...of Congress, become the seat of Government of the United States. This provision stands out by especially emphatic terminology in a document otherwise... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia - 1947 - 640 páginas
...SCHMECKEBIER. There are two specific clauses on that. In article 1, section 8, clause 17, it reads that the Congress shall have power — To exercise exclusive...of Congress, become the seat of Government of the United States. There is also a provision in respect to Territories, namely, article 4, section 3, clause... | |
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The Congress shall have power ... to exercise exclusive legislation in -all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of Government of... 
