...Marshall, in the American Insurance Company vs. Center, 1 Peters, 511, declares : " In legislation for the Territories Congress exercises the combined powers of the general and of a State government." And Judge Cooley, in his " Principles of Constitutional Law," uses these words: The people of the Territory,...

...Marshall, in the American Insurance Company vs. Conter, 1 Peters, 511, declares : " In legislation for the Territories Congress exercises the combined powers of the general and of a State government." And Judge Cooley, in his " Principles of Constitutional Law," uses these words: The people of the Territory,...

...belonging to the United States." The Supreme Court has said, I Peters, 511: " In legislating for them (Territories) Congress exercises the combined powers of the general and of a State government." Again, II Otto, 129: "The Territories are but political subdivisions of the outlying dominion of the...

...;17 the right to govern is the inevitable consequence of the right to acquire.18 In legislating for the Territories, Congress exercises the combined powers of the General and of the State Governments.!9 It has the absolute power of governing and legislating for the Territories,...

...there is but one other sentence of the opinion that seems to sustain the unrepublican theory, viz: In legislating for them [the Territories] Congress...combined powers of the general and of a State government. This was also considered by the court in Scott v. Sandford; the opinion in the case points out that...

...leading strings. As Chief Justice Marshal said in American Insurance Company v. Canter (1 Pet. 546) "in legislating for them (the territories) congress...powers of the general and of a state government." It also follows from these premises, that congress may legislate for each and any of the territories,...

...powers which that body possesses over the Territories of the United States. ... In legislating for them Congress exercises the combined powers of the General and of a State Government." For reasons before indicated the same full power exists in Congress when organizing civil society among...

...of the Constitution, the same limitation does not extend to the Territories. In legislating for them Congress exercises the combined powers of the General and of a State government. We think, then, that the act of the Territorial legislature erecting the court by whose decree the...

...power is derived, the possession of it is unquestioned." And in another part of the opinion he said : " In legislating for them [the territories] congress...powers of the general and of a state government." - In the late case which has been referred to,2 the chief justice, delivering the opinion of the court,...

...principles of the common law. This argument fails to give due weight to the fact that, in legislating for the Territories, Congress exercises " the combined powers of the general and of a state government." Will it be contended that a State of the Union might not provide by its fundamental law, or by legislative...