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Excerpt from State Documents on Federal Relations: The States and the United States; Number II., State Rights and the War of 1812; 1809-1815
Now the State of Louisiana lies without those limits; and on this distinction the whole question of constitutional right depends. The power, assumed by Congress, in passing this act for the admission of Louisiana, if acquiesced in, is plainly a power to admit new States into this Union, at their discretion, without limit of place or Country. Not only new States may be carved, at will, out of the boundless regions of Louisiana, but the whole ex tent of South America, indeed of the globe, is a sphere, within which it may operate without check or control, and with no other limit than such as Congress may choose to impose on its own dis cretion. [here follows a detailed examination of the Constitution in refutation of the constitutionality of annexation and admission of new States.
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