 But the genius and character of our institutions are peaceful, and the power to declare war was not conferred upon Congress for the purposes of aggression or aggrandizement, but to enable the general government to vindicate by arms, if it should become...  War Powers Under the Constitution of the United States - Stran 322avtor: William Whiting - 1864 - 342 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Daniel Gardner - 1860 - 740 strani
...purposes of aggression or aggrandizement, but to enable the general government to vindicate, by arms, if it should become necessary, its own rights and...enemy's country. The United States, it is true, may extend its boundaries by conquest or treaty, and may demand the cession of territory as the condition... | |
 | Andrés Castillero - 1861 - 1082 strani
...purpose of aggression or aggrandizement, but to enable the General Government to vindicate by arms, if it should become necessary, its own rights and...purpose of conquest or the acquisition of territory.' As a limitation upon the power of Congress, this distinction may, practically, be unimportant. As every... | |
 | Andrés Castillero - 1861 - 1066 strani
...purpose of aggression or aggrandizement, but to enable the General Government to vindicate by arms, if it should become necessary, its own rights and the rights of its citizens. A war, tlierefore, declared by Congress, can never be presumed to be waged for the purpose of conquest or... | |
 | 1861 - 1074 strani
...purpose of aggression or aggrandizement, but to enable the General Government to vindicate by arms, if it should become necessary, its own rights and the rights of its citizens. A wur, therefore, declared by Congress, can never be presumed to be waged for the purpose of conquest... | |
 | William Whiting - 1864 - 104 strani
...purposes of aggression or aggrandizement, but to enable the general government to vindicate by arms, if it should become necessary, its own rights and...the limits of the United States by subjugating the enemy.s country. The United States, it is true, may extend its boundaries by conquest or treaty, and... | |
 | William Whiting - 1864 - 106 strani
...the limits before assigned to them by the legislative power. subjugate, ernment to vindicate by arms, if it should become necessary, its own rights and the rights of its citizens. It is true that, when Tampico had been captured, and the State "^ (1 to th g X " of Tamaulipas subjugated,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1870 - 820 strani
...purposes of aggression or aggrandizement, but to enable the general governmen to vindicate by arms, if it should become necessary, its own rights and...enemy's country. The United States, it is true, may extend its boundaries by conquest or treaty, and * may demand the [ * 615 ] cession of territory as... | |
 | William Whiting - 1871 - 728 strani
...purposes of aggression or aggrandizement, but to enable the general government to vindicate by arms, if it should become necessary, its own rights and...enemy's country. The United States, it is true, may extend its boundaries by conquest or treaty, and may demand the cession of territory as the condition... | |
 | William Whiting - 1871 - 736 strani
...but to enable the general goveminent to vindicate by arms, if it should become necessary, its ov.-n rights and the rights of its citizens. A war, therefore,...of conquest, or the acquisition of territory : nor docs the law declaring the war imply an authority to the President to enlarge the limits of the United... | |
 | Adolphe de Pineton marquis de Chambrun - 1874 - 318 strani
...purposes of aggression or aggrandizement, but to enable the general government to vindicate, by arms, if it should become necessary, its own rights and...purpose of conquest or the acquisition of territory." * At the same time that the convention gave to the legislature the war-declaring power, it chose to... | |
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