...such a Government. The constitution of the United States gives to Con. gross the power to make " all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory belonging to the United States ;" and this necessarily implies the power to govern the inhabitants residing upon the territory : for,...

...sovereignty which exists in the government, or. in virtue of that clause which enables congress to make all needful rules and regulations, respecting the territory belonging to the United States. The jurisdiction with which they are invested, is not a part of that judicial power which is defined...

...constitution of the United Slates that says, "That congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory belonging to the United States, and that nothing in said constitution shall be soconstrued as to prejudice any claim of the United...

...sovereignty which exists in the government, or in virtue of that clause which enables congress to make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory belonging to the United States. The jurisdiction with which they are invested is not a part of that judicial power which is defined...

...Such being the case, congress, certainly, was clothed with no power to legislate upon the subject аз it existed in the states, by that instrument composing...given congress " to dispose of, and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory belonging to the United States," must be construed according...

...by Mr. Madison ; and it if difficult to believe that an authority so general as that of making "all needful rules and regulations " respecting the territory belonging to the United States (the term regulations being used at that time much as we now use the term laws) could have been conferred,...

...Constitution of the United States declares, that " the Congress shall have power to dispose of, and make all needful rules and regulations respecting, the territory belonging to the United States." Here, a general superintending power is given : a power necessary in the very nature of , the thing;...

...ultimate power of governing the territory by virtue of the clause conferring the power to " make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory belonging to the United States." This is obvious on the face of the instrument, as well as from the necessary incidents attending the...

...sovereignty which exists in the Government, or in virtue of that clause which enables Congress to make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory belonging to the United States." "This is enough — sufficiently explicit — to affirm the sovereign right of government in the owner...

...negro slavery forms an exception. The Constitution declares that Congress shall have power to make "all needful rules and regulations" respecting the territory belonging to the United States. The assertion is, though the Constitution says all, it does not mean all — though it says all, withont...