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" The Congress shall have power ... to exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of Government of... "
Anti-slavery Manual: Containing a Collection of Facts and Arguments on ... - Page 112
by La Roy Sunderland - 1837 - 142 pages
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The Port Folio

Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1819 - 550 pages
...sixteenth paragraph of the eighth section of the first article of the constitution, it is provided, " That congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation...of congress, become the seat of government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature,...
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Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising ..., Volume 1; Volume 4; Volume 47

United States. Congress - Law - 1828 - 770 pages
...the enumeration of the powers of Congress, in the 8th section of the 1st article, in these words : " Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation,...of Congress, become the seat of Government of the United States ; and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by consent of the legislature...
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Legislative and Documentary History of the Bank of the United States ...

Matthew St. Clair Clarke - Banking law - 1832 - 864 pages
...prevent them. In the eighth section of the first article of the constitution, a right is enumerated: " The Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive...of Congress, become the seat of Government of the United States." The power delegated to the Congress by virtue and force of this clause, is eminently...
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Remarks Upon Slavery: Occasioned by Attempts Made to Circulate Improper ...

William J. Hobby - Slavery - 1835 - 40 pages
...the 8th section of the first article of the Constitution of the United States, it is declared that Congress shall have power, " to exercise exclusive...of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased, by consent of the legislature...
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The Quarterly Anti-slavery Magazine, Volume 2

Antislavery movements - 1837 - 486 pages
...examination, to the 17th clause of the same section, from which we have just quoted, where it reads — " The Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive...of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States, &c." No one can reasonably suppose theframers of the Constitution foresaw the importance,...
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Anti-slavery Manual: Containing a Collection of Facts and Arguments on ...

La Roy Sunderland - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 160 pages
...Congress, composed of Senators and Representatives from all the States in the Union, possesses the power to abolish slavery in its capital, and refuses to exercise it. The Congress shall hare power to exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such district, (not exceeding...
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Anti-slavery Manual: Containing a Collection of Facts and Arguments on ...

La Roy Sunderland - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 152 pages
...Congress, composed of Senators and Representatives from all the States in the Union, possesses the power to abolish slavery in its capital, and refuses to exercise it. The honor and good faith of this nation are pledged upon this subject. 14. This nation will be considered,...
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Pamphlets. American History

United States - 1839 - 397 pages
...extra-territorial? and of no force whatever. He read clause 17, sec. 8, art. 1, of the constitution, as follows : "The Congress shall have power, to exercise exclusive...of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States, and to exercise -like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the Legislature...
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Speeches and Forensic Arguments, Volume 3

Daniel Webster - United States - 1843 - 582 pages
...Now, that section to which reference is thus expressly made in these deeds of cession, declares, that Congress shall have power " to exercise exclusive...of Congress, become the seat of Government of the United States." Nothing, therefore, as it seems to me, can be clearer than that the States making the...
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The Seat of Government of the United States: A Review of the Discussions, in ...

Viator - United States - 1848 - 84 pages
...framed that part of section 8, art. 1, of the constitution of the United States, which declares that Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation...of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States, and to make all laws which may be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the...
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