 | Jacob D. Wheeler - 1851 - 704 str.
...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 str.
...States." 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... | |
 | Robert Henley Eden Baron Henley - 1852 - 770 str.
...there are others of a more conclusive character. Ib. In tho eighth section of the first article of the constitution of the United States it is declared, that congress shall have power " to promote the progress of science and the nseful arts, by securing, for a limited time, to authors and... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1853 - 578 str.
...States." 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.
...who 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...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... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - 1859 - 776 str.
...point, I suppose there can be no difference of opinion. In article 1, section 8, of the constitution, it is declared that Congress shall have power " to...of Congress, become the seat of Government of the United States." The words are full, clear, and explicit. The power extends to " legislation in all... | |
 | Richard Peters - 1860 - 836 str.
...others of a more conclusive character. Ibid. 10. In the eighth section of the first article of the constitution of the United States, it is declared, that congress shall have power "to promote the progress of science and the useful arts, by securing, for a limited time, to authors and... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1841 - 688 str.
...of the eighth section of the first Article of the Constitution of the United States, which provides that " 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 consent of the legislature of the State in... | |
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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... 
