 | James Dabney McCabe - 1873 - 580 páginas
...success. In September, 1787, the Constitution of the United States wns adopted, which provides that Congress shall have power " to exercise exclusive...of Congress, become the seat of Government of the United States." This clause of the Constitution fixed definitely the size of the Federal district,... | |
 | Mary Clemmer - 1873 - 634 páginas
...much to do with Section 8, Article 1, of the Constitution of the United States, which declares that Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation...of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States. This article was assented to by the convention which framed the Constitution, without... | |
 | James Dabney McCabe - 1873 - 556 páginas
...success. In September, 1787, the Constitution of the United States was adopted, which provides that Congress shall have power " to exercise exclusive...of Congress, become the seat of Government of the United States." % This clause of the Constitution fixed definitely the size of the Federal district,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1874 - 856 páginas
...touching this District, has employed language the most positive and explicit which can be selected. It is in these words: "Congress shall have power * * « to exercise exclusive legislation in all canes tchatsoerer over such District," &c. This provision, as to legislative power here, is plenary... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - 1879 - 780 páginas
...Now, that section, to which reference is thus expressly made in these deeds of cession, declares, that h, shock and disgust United ¡states." Nothing, therefore, as it seems to me, can be clearer, than that the States making... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1884 - 724 páginas
...prejudice any claims of the United States or of any particular state." Art. 4, §3, cl. 2. Also 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... | |
 | John Norton Pomeroy - 1886 - 800 páginas
...THE TERRITORIES. § 483. The express grants which directly relate to this power are the following : " 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... | |
 | 1887 - 810 páginas
...Confederation steered clear of the subject, and the Constitution flanked it in the well-known provision : The congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation,...of congress, become the seat of government of the United States. This clause was the result of a good deal of discussion, at one or two features of which... | |
 | 1888 - 786 páginas
...Confederation steered clear of the subject, and the Constitution flanked it in the well-known provisipn : The congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation,...of congress, become the seat of government of the United States. This clause was the result of a 'good deal of discussion, at one or two features of... | |
 | 1907 - 1220 páginas
...by the Constitution of the United States, which provides in subdivision 17, § 8, art. 1, that the Congress shall have power "to exercise exclusive legislation...of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States." The court will take judicial notice that the District of Columbia is the seat of government... | |
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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... 
