 | 1910 - 790 str.
...controversy centers, is a part of the seventeenth clause of the eighth section of article one, and reads : The Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive...of Congress, become the seat of Government of the United States. The interpretation of this clause depends almost entirely upon the interpretation of... | |
 | William Henry Crook - 1910 - 316 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... | |
 | William Estabrook Chancellor - 1912 - 616 str.
...Jefferson, the controversy began with a compromise. According to the Constitution, Article I, section 8, "The Congress shall have power . to exercise exclusive...of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States." This section was adopted on Wednesday, September 5, 1787, by the Constitutional Convention... | |
 | University of Minnesota - 1913 - 402 str.
...honor."1 But it was not without effect. In section eight of article two of the Constitution we read : "The congress shall have power to exercise exclusive...of congress, become the seat of government of the United States." Having exclusive legislative power the national government has of course had absofute... | |
 | 1916 - 1092 str.
...development. THE FACTS AS SHOWN BY THE OFFICAL BECOBDS. The Constitution contains a provision that Congress shall have power — " To exercise exclusive...of Congress, become the seat of Government of the United States." (US Constitution, art. 1, sec. 8, clause 1.) WHY THIS PBOVI8ION WAS ADOPTED. This power... | |
 | William Bennett Munro - 1919 - 680 str.
...state. At Madison's suggestion, accordingly, the constitution was worded to provide that Congress should have power "to exercise exclusive legislation in all...of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States." * The selection of the exact place was left for the future, but with 1 The best full... | |
 | 1920 - 568 str.
...Congress, Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, adopted 1787, and ratified by the States, as follows: "Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation...of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States, end to exercise like authority over all places purchased, by the consent of the legislature... | |
 | 1923 - 1144 str.
...of government. This provision is contained in Article i, Section 8 of the Constitution as follows: " The Congress shall have Power ... to exercise exclusive...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... | |
 | 1899 - 1172 str.
...self-governing, but are governed by Congress. Thus the Constitution, Article I, sections 8-17, provides that Congress shall have power — To exercise exclusive...of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States. Article IV, Sections 3 — 2, also provides that— Congress shall have power to dispose... | |
 | United States. National Sesquicentennial Exhibition Commission - 1927 - 576 str.
...adopted in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787, provides in Article I, Section 8, paragraph 17, that the Congress shall have power — "To exercise exclusive...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... | |
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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... 
