 | 1890 - 726 str.
...is given as a matter of interest and convenient reference : Constitution, Article I, section 8: The Congress shall have power « • • " to exercise...acceptance of Congress become the seat of government of the United States." Act approved July 16, 1790 (1 Stat. L., p. 130) : Section 1 : "That a district not... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - 1892 - 922 str.
...express authority from the Constitution. But to avoid all question, this instrument provides that " the Congress shall have power . . . to exercise exclusive...of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States. " ° In like manner, — § 188. Territories. — No special words are needed to give... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1893 - 784 str.
...388. ABSTRACT OF LEGISLATION RELATIVE TO CAPITOL BUILDING. Constitution, Article I, section 8: The Congress shall have power * * * " to exercise exclusive...acceptance of Congress become the seat of government of the United States." Act approved July 16, 1790 (1 Stat. L., p. 130). SBC. 1. That a district not exceeding... | |
 | James Mitchell Ashley - 1894 - 950 str.
...of the sixteenth clause of the eighth section of the first article of the Constitution reads thus: " Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation...of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States." Mr. Chairman, I need not go into a labored argument to show that Congress has power... | |
 | James Harrison Kennedy - 1895 - 686 str.
...Confederation steered clear of the subject, and the Constitution flanked it in the well-known provision: "The congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation,...acceptance of congress become the seat of government of the United States." This clause was the result of a good deal of discussion, at one or two features of... | |
 | John Gardner Hawley, Malcolm McGregor - 1896 - 350 str.
...of the several states, the power of the national government to enact criminal laws is a limited one. Congress shall have power: "To exercise exclusive...of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States,5 and to exercise like authority over all places purchased, by the consent of the legislature... | |
 | Pennsylvania, James Tyndale Mitchell, Henry Flanders - 1908 - 608 str.
...being directed and established by the constitution of the United States that the "congress thereof shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation...acceptance of congress become the seat of government of the United States:" And the same appearing to be just and reasonable and this house being willing to make... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1900 - 408 str.
...adoption of the Constitution, the subject was presented in a new form, under the following clause : "The Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation,...of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States." From the records of the Convention it does not appear that this clause occasioned debate.... | |
 | Barnabas C. Moon - 1901 - 1042 str.
...Biss. 572; 717, 16 Blatchf. 150, 25 Int. Rev. Rec. 138, 7 Reporter 553, 57 How. Pr. 175. §122. 1 " 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 - 1903 - 334 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... | |
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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... 
