 | United States. Congress - United States - 1830 - 660 pages
...foreign nations, and among the several States, is vested in Congress as absolutely as it would be in a single Government, having in its constitution the...power as are found in the constitution of the United States." The word sovereignty, applied here to Congress, if understood as it frequently is, I do not... | |
 | United States. Congress - Cherokee Indians - 1830 - 326 pages
...than are prescribed in the constitution. It is vested in Congress, as absolutely as it would be in a single government, having in its constitution the...power, as are found in the constitution of the United States. As it implies, in its nature, full power Over the thing to be regulated, it excludes, necessarily,... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 540 pages
...the constitution itself. " The wisdom and the discretion of congress, (it has been justly observed,) their identity with the people, and the influence,...elections, are, in this, as in many other instances, as, for example, that of declaring war, the sole restraints ; on this they have relied, to secure them... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 564 pages
...wisdom and the discretion of congress, (it has been justly observed,) their identity with the people, i and the influence, which their constituents possess...elections, are, in this, as in many other instances, as, for example, that of declaring war, the sole restraints; on this they have relied, to secure them-... | |
 | Henry St. George Tucker - Constitutional law - 1843 - 254 pages
...the constitution itself. ' The wisdom and the discretion of congress, (it has been justly observed,) their identity with the people, and the influence,...elections, are, in this, as in many other instances, as, for example, that of declaring war, the sole restraints ; on this they have relied, to secure them... | |
 | William Alexander Duer - Constitutional law - 1843 - 442 pages
...exist, and the state Constitution had contained the same restrictions on the exercise of the legislative power as are found in the Constitution of the United...States. The wisdom and the discretion of Congress; the identity of its members with the people ; and their dependance on their constituents, are in this... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1845 - 852 pages
...foreign nations, and among the several states, is vested' in Congress as absolutely as it would be in a single government having in its constitution the same...power as are found in the Constitution of the United States." As the provision of what is called the compact between the United States and the state of... | |
 | Child rearing - 1845 - 436 pages
...exist, and the state Constitution had contained the same restrictions on the exercise of the legislative power as are found in the Constitution of the United...States. The wisdom and the discretion of Congress ; the identity of its members with the people ; and their dependance on their constituents, are in... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - Riparian rights - 1847 - 492 pages
...foreign nations, and among the several States, is vested in Congress as absolutely as it would be in a single government having in its Constitution the same...power as are found in the Constitution of the United States." As the provision of what is called the compact between the United States and the State of... | |
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Congress, though limited to specified objects, is plenary as to those objects, the power over commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, is vested in Congress as absolutely as it would be in a single government, having in its constitution... 
