Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Constitutional Power of Congress Over the Territory, of the United States
What authority is given by the Constitution to the general Government to acquire territory? What authority to gov ern it when acquired? What limitations are placed upon its acquisition or government? Such are the questions to which we shall seek an answer in the reports. The inquiry is not into those principles of public law common to all nations, but rather into the questions peculiar to our own Govern ment, as to its right with respect to its own people - not to outsiders - in other words, its right under the Constitution to acquire and govern territory other than that within its boundaries at the time of the adoption of the Constitution.
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