| 1897 - 812 pages
...The Supreme Court has, since the end of the Civil War, defined a State in our Union of States as " a political community of free citizens, occupying...constitution, and established by the consent of the governed." In the same opinion, after declaring that the perpetuity and indissolubility of the Union by no means... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1869 - 802 pages
...state most frequently expresses the combined idea just noticed, of people, territory, and government.- A state, in the ordinary sense of the Constitution,...constitution, and established by the consent of the governed. It is the union of such states, under a common constitution, which forms the distinct and greater political... | |
| 1869 - 820 pages
...state most frequently expresses the combined idea just noticed of people, territory, and government. A state, in the ordinary sense of the Constitution,...constitution, and established by the consent of the governed. 3. But the term is also used to express the idea of a people or political community as distinguished... | |
| Edward McPherson - 1869 - 144 pages
...State most frequently expresses the combined idea just noticed, of people, territory, and government. A State, in the ordinary sense of the Constitution, is a political Ťommunity of free citizens, occupying a territory of defined boundaries, and organized under a government... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1870 - 800 pages
...state most frequently expresses the combined idea just noticed, of people, territory, and government. A state, in the ordinary sense of the Constitution,...community of free citizens, occupying a territory of denned boundaries, and organized under a government sanctioned and limited by a written constitution,... | |
| Edward McPherson - 1872
...State most frequently expresses the combined idea just noticed, of people, territory, and government. A State, in the ordinary sense of the Constitution, is a political Ťommunity of free citizens, occupying a territory of defined boundaries, and organized under a government... | |
| John Brown Dillon - 1871 - 148 pages
...State most frequently expresses the comlbined idea just noticed, of people, territory, and government. A State, in the ordinary sense of the Constitution,...organized under a government sanctioned and limited Tby a written constitution, and established by the consent of the governed. It is the union of such... | |
| John Brown Dillon - 1871 - 156 pages
...State most frequently expresses the combined idea just noticed, of people, territory, and government. A State, in the ordinary sense of the Constitution,...political community of free citizens, occupying a territxfcy of defined boundaries, and organized under a government sanctioned and limited by a written... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1872 - 192 pages
...State most frequently expresses the combined idea just noticed, of people, territory, and government. A State, in the ordinary sense of the Constitution,...constitution, and established by the consent of the governed. But the term is also used to express the idea of a people or political community, as distinguished... | |
| 1874 - 752 pages
...communities of free citizens or electors. "A State," " ^it court, " in the ordinary sense of the (Federal) Constitution, is a political community of free citizens,...Constitution, and established by the consent of the governed. It is the union of such States, under a common Constitution, which forms the distinct and greater political... | |
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