 | United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs - 1837 - 330 páginas
...and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union, and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence as the other States." This was the pledge of public faith made by the old Congress to the land States, to induce them to... | |
 | United States - 1838 - 654 páginas
...and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the federal Union, and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other States; that each State which shall be so formed shall contain a suitable extent of territory, not less than... | |
 | Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio - 1839 - 356 páginas
...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." Now what were the rights of that character, possessed by the other states, under the old confederation?... | |
 | 1839 - 358 páginas
...condition, in the act of cession, that the states to be formed in the ceded territory, should have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other states. We believed that the inhabitants of the district, had rights in the trust, created by the act of cession,... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - 1840 - 632 páginas
...population should be persuaded to settle them, they should "be admitted members of the federal Union, having the same rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence as the other states." This condition and guaranty was invariably affixed to their invitations and acts, from 1779 to the... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature. House of Representatives - 1840 - 618 páginas
...should be persuaded to settle them, they should "be admi tied members of the federal Union, having the same rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence as the other states.' This condition and guaranty was invariably affixed to theirinvitations and acts, from 1779 to the period... | |
 | Massachusetts. General Court. Senate - 1842 - 980 páginas
...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." We come now to our own State. On 9th August, 1787, South Carolina, in the preamble, speaks of the invitation... | |
 | John Brown Dillon - 1843 - 482 páginas
...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. That the necessary and reasonable expenses incurred by Virginia, in subduing any British posts, or... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature. House of Representatives - 1846 - 806 páginas
...deed of cession, Virginia stipulates that the territory conveyed shall be formed into states "having the same rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence, as the other states." On the construction claimed by our neighbors, our state is not, as we have shown, either sovereign,... | |
 | William Thompson Howell - 1846 - 40 páginas
...statute and cession of Virginia, the fundamental condition of the trust, that the new states shall have "the same rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence as the other states." To maintain such a doctrine is to deny that Michigan has been admitted into the Union "on an equal... | |
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September last, shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence... 
