Nathan Clifford, Democrat (1803-1881)G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922 - 356 sider |
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Side 21 - East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth in the bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Side 28 - Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives be requested to use all...
Side 187 - The American Government by suppressing the Xth article of the treaty of Guadalupe did not in any way intend to annul the grants of lands made by Mexico in the ceded territories. These grants, notwithstanding the suppression of the article of the treaty, preserve the legal value which they may possess, and the grantees may cause their legitimate [titles] to be acknowledged before the American tribunals.
Side 287 - This Constitution and the laws of the United States made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land, and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby ; anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
Side 188 - Conformably to the law of the United States, legitimate titles to every description of property, personal and real, existing in the ceded territories are those which were legitimate titles under the Mexican law in California and New Mexico up to the 13th of May, 1846, and' in Texas up to the 2d March, 1836.
Side 285 - It is not surprising that amid the tumult of the late civil war, and under the influence of apprehensions for the safety of the Republic almost universal, different views, never before entertained by American statesmen or jurists, were adopted by many. The time was not favorable to considerate reflection upon the constitutional limits of legislative or executive authority. If power was assumed from patriotic motives, the assumption found ready justification in patriotic hearts. Many who doubted yielded...
Side 40 - ... aforesaid; and any agreement or treaty to be made in pursuance of this resolve is to be submitted to the legislature of Maine, for approval or rejection; and until such agreement or treaty be so submitted to, and approved by the legislature of Maine, nothing herein contained shall be construed, in any way, as implying the assent of this state to the line of boundary recommended by the arbiter, or to the right of the general government to adopt or sanction i hut line instead of the line described...
Side 289 - The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government . . . .
Side 288 - ... that day to lay the foundations of our public liberty and national independence. Though the powers granted were sufficient for the time, still when peace came they were soon found to be wholly inadequate to the exigencies of the new government in the relations which it sustained to the several States. Such powers as the Confederation possessed operated only upon the States as corporations, and not upon the people of the States ; and the system of government as adopted made no provision for an...
Side 187 - Guadalupe Hidalgo, on the second day of February of the present year; and His Excellency Don Luis de la Rosa, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Mexico; it was agreed, after adequate conversation, respecting the changes alluded to, to record in the present protocol the following explanations, which their aforesaid excellencies the Commissioners gave in the name of their Government and in fulfillment of the commission conferred upon them near the Mexican Republic: 1st.