 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 the United States...  Speeches and Forensic Arguments - Página 235por Daniel Webster - 1843Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | 1910 - 780 páginas
...controversy centers, is a part of the seventeenth clause of the eighth section of article one, and reads: The Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation...of Congress, become the seat of Government of the United States. The interpretation of this clause depends almost entirely upon the interpretation of... | |
 | 1910 - 790 páginas
...centers, is a part of the seventeenth clause of the eighth section of article one, and reads : The Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation...of Congress, become the seat of Government of the United States. The interpretation of this clause depends almost entirely upon the interpretation of... | |
 | William Estabrook Chancellor - 1912 - 618 páginas
...the controversy began with a compromise. According to the Constitution, Article I, section 8, "The Congress shall have power . to exercise exclusive...of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States." This section was adopted on Wednesday, September 5, 1787, by the Constitutional Convention... | |
 | University of Minnesota - 1913 - 418 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 absolute... | |
 | University of Minnesota - 1913 - 402 páginas
...Justice Story, who wrote the opinion in the case, remarked : "The Constitution of the United States declares that Congress shall have power to exercise 'exclusive legislation' in all 'cases whatsoever' over all places purchased by the consent of the Legislature of the State in which... | |
 | 1916 - 1092 páginas
...maintenance and 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... | |
 | United States. Army. Judge Advocate General's Department. War Department - 1916 - 560 páginas
...the United States carries with it exclusive jurisdiction. — The Constitution of the United States declares that Congress shall have power to exercise "exclusive legislation " in all " cases whatsoever over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the State in which... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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