 | John Frost - 1848 - 424 strani
...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, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in... | |
 | 1848 - 738 strani
...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 ; and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the Legislature of the State in... | |
 | James A. Williams - 1848 - 188 strani
...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, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the Legislature of the state in... | |
 | William Euen - 1848 - 164 strani
...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, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1040 strani
...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, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased, by the consent of the legislature of the state in... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1850 - 448 strani
...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, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased, by the consent of the legislature of the state in... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1851 - 580 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia - 1964 - 498 strani
...the District stems from article I, section 8, clause 17 of the Constitution, which provides that the Congress shall have power : "To exercise exclusive...of Congress, become the Seat of Government of the United States, * * *." The congressional power of legislation over the District of Columbia is plenary,... | |
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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... 
