 | United States. Supreme Court - 1905 - 728 páginas
...real estate for named money consideration. The New Jersey act of 1846 was merely one of cession, 1 The Congress shall have power ... to exercise exclusive...the seat of Government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the State in... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court. Appellate Division - 1907 - 1074 páginas
...Constitution of the United States, which provides in subdivision 17 of section 8 of article 1 that the Congress shall have power "to exercise exclusive legislation...of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States." The court will take judicial notice that the District of Columbia is the seat of government... | |
 | Albert H. Putney - 1908 - 392 páginas
...States their ordinary management and control." SECTION 44. SEAT OF GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES. (The Congress shall have power) — "To exercise exclusive...the seat of Government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the States in... | |
 | William Henry Crook - 1910 - 316 páginas
...States." 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... | |
 | 1910 - 790 páginas
...centers, is a part of the seventeenth clause of the eighth section of article one, and reads : The Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation...of Congress, become the seat of Government of the United States. The interpretation of this clause depends almost entirely upon the interpretation of... | |
 | 1910 - 780 páginas
...controversy centers, is a part of the seventeenth clause of the eighth section of article one, and reads: The Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation...of Congress, become the seat of Government of the United States. The interpretation of this clause depends almost entirely upon the interpretation of... | |
 | William Estabrook Chancellor - 1912 - 618 páginas
...the controversy began with a compromise. According to the Constitution, Article I, section 8, "The Congress shall have power . to exercise exclusive...of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States." This section was adopted on Wednesday, September 5, 1787, by the Constitutional Convention... | |
 | University of Minnesota - 1913 - 402 páginas
...honor."1 But it was not without effect. In section eight of article two of the Constitution we read : "The congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation...of congress, become the seat of government of the United States." Having exclusive legislative power the national government has of course had absofute... | |
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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 the United States... 
