 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 - Page 235by Daniel Webster - 1843Full view - About this book
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - 1858 - 776 pages
...habit of using it, that we forget where they are mislaid. The words of the constitution are these : " Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation...of Congress, become the seat of Government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased, by the consent of the Legislature... | |
 | Richard Peters - 1860 - 792 pages
...law, means wilfulness. Dexter v. Spear, 4 Mason's CCR 115. 17. The constitution of the United States declares, that congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatever, over places purchased by the consent of the leNaturalization. gislatures of the states... | |
 | E. N. Elliott - 1860 - 1310 pages
...Congress shall have power " to make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory ;" but it declares that "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... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1841 - 688 pages
...of the eighth section of the first Article of the Constitution of the United States, which provides that " Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive...of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States; and to exercise like authority •over all places purchased by consent of the legislature... | |
 | William D'Arcy Haley - 1861 - 274 pages
...the Delaware. Two years later the Constitution was adopted, declaring (Article I., Section 8) "The Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation,...of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States " On the 23d of December, 1788, the Legislature of Maryland passed an act authorizing... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1862 - 788 pages
...legislation" over that spot. Here Mr. G. read that part of the Constitution which relates to this subject: " Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation,...of Congress, become the seat of Government of the United States." Was there, in this phraseology, anything to lead the mind to fix on it the idea of... | |
 | Viator - 1864 - 302 pages
...of those who framed that part of Section 8, Art. I. of the Constitution of the United States, which declares that Congress shall have power to exercise...of Congress, become the seat of Government of the United States, and to make all laws which may be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the... | |
 | George Washington Paschal - 1868 - 452 pages
...Declaration of Independence, p. 7. Signed Articles of Confederation, p. 21. • LEGISLATION, exclusive. Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation...of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by tliu consent of the legislature... | |
 | John B. Ellis - 1869 - 548 pages
...success. In September, 1787, the present 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 new district, and... | |
 | Ninian Wirt Edwards, Ninian Edwards - 1870 - 554 pages
...By the eighth section of the first article of the Constitution of the United States, it is declared that Congress shall have power "to exercise exclusive...of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased, by the consent of the Legislature... | |
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