...have been void and inoperative; because the United States have no constitutional capacity to exercise municipal jurisdiction, sovereignty, or eminent domain,...except in the cases in which it is expressly granted. By the 16th clause of the 8th section of the 1st article ofthe Constitution, power is given to Congress...

...have been void and inoperative; because the United States have no constitutional capacity to exercise municipal jurisdiction, sovereignty, or eminent domain,...except in the cases in which it is expressly granted." As to the latter exception reference is then made to the District of Columbia, and places purchased...

...and in the language of the Supreme court, above cited, "has no constitutional capacity to exercise municipal jurisdiction, sovereignty, or eminent domain,...except in the cases in which it is expressly granted." It is now proposed to consider the scope and tenor of congressional action relative to the new states,...

...have been void and inoperative ; because the United States have no constitutional capacity to exercise municipal jurisdiction, sovereignty, or eminent domain,...except in the cases in which it is expressly granted. By the 16th clause of the 8th section of the 1st article of the Constitution, power is given to Congress...

...would have been inoperative and void, because the United States has no authority to take or exercise municipal jurisdiction, sovereignty, or eminent domain...within the limits of a state or elsewhere, except when expre^lv granted by the constitution of the United States, thp court concludes thus: "The right...

...Hagan (3 How. 212), the court say : " The United States have no constitutional capacity to exercise municipal jurisdiction, sovereignty, or eminent domain,...within the limits of a state or elsewhere, except in cases where it is delegated, and the court denies the faculty of the federal government to add to its...

...have been void and inoperative, because the United State* have no constitutional capacity to exercise municipal jurisdiction, sovereignty, or eminent domain,...within the limits of a State or elsewhere, except iu the cases in which it is expressly granted." Yet further: " Itv the sixteenth clause of the eighth...

...the limits it marks out, in their administration. The court have said "that Congress cannot exercise municipal jurisdiction, sovereignty, or eminent domain, within the limits of a State or elsewhere, beyond what has been delegated." We are then to find the authority for supreme power in the Territories...

...the limits it marks out, in their administration. The court have said " that Congress cannot exercise municipal jurisdiction, sovereignty, or eminent domain, within the limits of a State or elsewhere, beyond what has been delegated." We are then to find the authority for supreme power in the Territories...

...the limits it marks out, in their administration. The court have said "that Congress cannot exercise municipal jurisdiction, sovereignty, or eminent domain, within the limits of a State or elsewhere, beyond what has been delegated." 'VVe are then to find the authority for supreme power in the Territories...