 | Daniel Webster - 1851 - 580 str.
...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... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1853 - 578 str.
...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... | |
 | JOSEPH B. VARNUM - 1854 - 130 str.
...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... | |
 | Samuel Brown Wylie - 1855 - 560 str.
...fact is undeniable—here there is no 1 apology.—See Art. 1, sec. 8, United States Constitution: " Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation...of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States." They have the power, they want the will—but of this before. This allegation, however,... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - 1858 - 776 str.
...habit of using it, that we forget where they are mislaid. The words of the constitution are these : " 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... | |
 | William D'Arcy Haley - 1861 - 274 str.
...the Delaware. Two years later the Constitution was adopted, declaring (Article I., Section 8) "The Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation,...of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States " On the 23d of December, 1788, the Legislature of Maryland passed an act authorizing... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1862 - 788 str.
...legislation" over that spot. Here Mr. G. read that part of the Constitution which relates to this subject: " Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation,...of Congress, become the seat of Government of the United States." Was there, in this phraseology, anything to lead the mind to fix on it the idea of... | |
 | Viator - 1864 - 302 str.
...framed that part of Section 8, Art. I. 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. This... | |
 | George Washington Paschal - 1868 - 452 str.
...Declaration of Independence, p. 7. Signed Articles of Confederation, p. 21. • LEGISLATION, exclusive. 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 tliu consent of the legislature of th« State... | |
 | John B. Ellis - 1869 - 548 str.
...In September, 1787, the present Constitution of the United States was adopted, which provides that Congress shall have power " to exercise exclusive...of Congress, become the seat of Government of the United States." This clause of the Constitution fixed definitely the size of the new district, and... | |
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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... 
