 | 1819 - 550 strani
...sixteenth paragraph of the eighth section of the first article of the constitution, it is provided, " That congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation...the seat of government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature, in which the same... | |
 | Matthew St. Clair Clarke - 1832 - 856 strani
...them. In the eighth section of the first article of the constitution, a right is enumerated : " The Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation...of Congress, become the seat of Government of the United States." The power delegated to the Congress by virtue and force of this clause, is eminently... | |
 | La Roy Sunderland - 1837 - 176 strani
...the Union, possesses the power to abolish slavery in its capital, and refuses to exercise it. " The Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation...of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States."— Constitution U. Slates, Art. 1st, Sec. 8. The honor and good faith of this nation... | |
 | 1837 - 486 strani
...examination, to the 17th clause of the same section, from which we have just quoted, where it reads — " The Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation...of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States, &c." No one can reasonably suppose theframers of the Constitution foresaw the importance,... | |
 | 1839 - 397 strani
...and of no force whatever. He read clause 17, sec. 8, art. 1, of the constitution, as follows : "The Congress shall have power, to exercise exclusive legislation...the seat of government of the United States, and to exercise -like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the Legislature of the State in... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1843 - 582 strani
...Now, that section to which reference is thus expressly made in these deeds of cession, declares, that Congress shall have power " to exercise exclusive...of Congress, become the seat of Government of the United States." Nothing, therefore, as it seems to me, can be clearer than that the States making the... | |
 | 1848 - 688 strani
...framed that part of section 8, art. 1, of the constitution of the United States, which declares that Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation...the seat of government of the United States, and to make all laws which may be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers. By... | |
 | Viator - 1848 - 84 strani
...framed that part of section 8, art. 1, of the constitution of the United States, which declares that Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation...the seat of government of the United States, and to make all laws which may be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers. By... | |
 | 1848 - 694 strani
...framed that part of section 8, art. 1, of the constitution of the United States, which declares that Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation...of Congress, become the seat of government of the United Slates, and to make all laws which may be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the... | |
 | Jacob D. Wheeler - 1851 - 704 strani
...thereof convicted, shal' suffer death." ' By the constitution of the United States (art. 1, sec. 8) : " Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation...the seat of government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchr.scd. by consent of the legislature of the state in which... | |
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The 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 States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of Government of... 
