...decided the constitutional question involved, and held that "there is no power given by the Constitution to establish or maintain colonies, bordering on the...distance, to be ruled and governed at its own pleasure." The Spanish war was not undertaken by this government for conquest or aggrandizement, but we interfered...

...Court of the United States, when it said: — "There is certainly no power given by the Constitution of the Federal Government to establish or maintain colonies...on the United States or at a distance, to be ruled or governed at its own pleasure; nor to enlarge its territorial limits in any way, except by the admission...

...requiring ultimate admission as a State. The language used by Chief Justice Taney is as follows: There ie certainly no power given by the Constitution to the...in any way except by the admission of new States. That power is plainly given, and if a new State is admitted it needs no further legislation by Congress,...

...Scott case, giving especial consideration to the sentiment expressed by him that "there is no power by the Constitution to the Federal Government to establish...distance,, to be ruled and governed at its own pleasure; and if a new state is admitted it needs no further legislation by Congress, because the Constitution...

...trust requiring ultimate admission as a State. The language used by Chief Justice Taney is as follows: There is certainly no power given by the Constitution...bordering on the United States or at a distance, to lie ruled and governed at its own pleasure; nor to enlarge its territorial limits in any way except...

...trust requiring ultimate admission as a State. The language used by Chief Justice Taney is as follows: There is certainly no power given by the Constitution...to establish or maintain colonies bordering on the L'nited States or at a distance, to be ruled and governed at its own pleasure: nor to enlarge its territorial...

...trust requiring ultimate admission as a State. The language used by Chief Justice Taney is as follows: There is certainly no power given by the Constitution...in any way except by the admission of new States. That power is plainly given, and if a new State is admitted it needs no further legislation by Congress,...

...places over which the Government extends. (Loughborough vs. Blake, per Marshall, CJ, 5 Wheat., 323-) There is certainly no power given by the Constitution...distance, to be ruled and governed at its own pleasure. * * * It (the new acquisition) is acquired to become a State, and not to be held as a colony by Congress...

...art. 4. 25 In the majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sanford, already cited, the chief justice said : "There is certainly no power given by the constitution...pleasure; nor to enlarge its territorial limits in anyway, except by the admission of new states. That power is plainly given; and if a new state is admitted,...

...acquired from a foreign government ; and that no power had been conferred by the Constitution upon the federal government " to establish or maintain...in any way except by the admission of new states." Had arguments of this sort, backed by a strong public sentiment against the acquisition of the territory...