Harvard Law Review, Volume 12

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Harvard Law Review Pub. Association, 1899
 

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Page 381 - Article contains the following: "The United States in Congress assembled shall have authority to appoint such other committees and civil officers as may be necessary for managing the 'general' affairs of the United States under their direction." I See supra, page 370, note i.
Page 203 - 1 In the convention which framed the Constitution of the United States the first resolution was that "a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislative, judiciary, and executive." Journal of the Federal Convention, 82, 83, May 30, 1787.
Page 496 - part of the judicial power conferred by the Constitution on the general government. The courts are the legislative courts of the territory, created in virtue of the clause which authorizes Congress to make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory belonging to the United States.
Page 495 - right of sovereignty which exists in the government, or in virtue of that clause which enables Congress to make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory belonging to the United States. The jurisdiction with which they are invested is not a part of that judicial power which is
Page 402 - govern them as provinces, and allow them no voice in our councils. In wording the third section of the fourth article, I went as far as circumstances would permit, to establish the exclusion. Candor obliges me to add my belief, that had it been more pointedly expressed, a strong opposition would have been made.
Page 303 - act of the territorial legislature valid, and a valid act void. In other words, it has full and complete legislative authority over the people of the territories and all the departments of the territorial governments. It may do for the Territories what the people, under the Constitution of the United States, may do for the States.
Page 414 - all persons born in the United States, and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are declared to be citizens of the United States.
Page 224 - the case. One of the judges, however, further holds that the suit cannot be maintained because, at common law, "in a civil court, the death of a human being could not be complained of as an injury,
Page 486 - of the government, and not for the judicial. It is our duty to expound and execute the law as we find it, and we think it too firmly and clearly established to admit of dispute that the Indian tribes residing within the territorial limits of the United States are subject to their authority.
Page 280 - show that the aggregate of his property at a fair valuation is sufficient in amount to pay his debts, no act will make him liable to be adjudicated a bankrupt. The most objectionable feature of the law is the provision that " a wage-earner or a person engaged chiefly in farming or the tillage of the soil

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