Georgia and State Rights: A Study of the Political History of Georgia from the Revolution to the Civil War, with Particular Regard to Federal Relations, Volume 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1902 - 224 páginas |
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Georgia and State Rights: A Study of the Political History of Georgia from ... Ulrich Bonnell Phillips Visualização completa - 1902 |
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Página 17 - States; to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union...
Página 171 - March 6, 1820,) which, being inconsistent with the principle of non-intervention by Congress with slavery in the States and Territories — as recognized by the legislation of 1850, commonly called the Compromise Measures — is hereby declared inoperative and void...
Página 329 - The controllers of the public schools of the first school district of Pennsylvania...
Página 20 - That the said report, with the resolutions and letter accompanying the same, be transmitted to the several legislatures, in order to be submitted to a convention of delegates, chosen in each state by the people thereof, in conformity of the resolves of the convention, made and provided in that case...
Página 171 - First: That all questions pertaining to slavery in the territories, and in the new States to be formed therefrom, are to be left to the decision of the people residing therein, by their appropriate representatives, to be chosen by them for that purpose. Second : That " all cases involving title to slaves...
Página 35 - States' accept the cession above mentioned, and on the conditions therein expressed; and they cede to the State of Georgia, whatever claim, right or title they may have to the jurisdiction or soil of any lands lying within the United States, and out of the proper boundaries of any other state, and situated south of the southern boundaries of the states of Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina, and east of the boundary line...
Página 72 - Indians are tenants at her will, and that she may at any time she pleases, determine that tenancy by taking possession of the premises — and that Georgia has the right to extend her authority and laws over her whole territory, and to coerce obedience to them from all descriptions of people, be they white, red, or black, who may reside within her limits.
Página 20 - The migration or importation of such persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year eighteen hundred and eight, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person.
Página 171 - when admitted as a State, the said Territory^ or any portion of the same, shall be received into the Union, with or without Slavery, as their constitutions may prescribe at the time of their admission.
Página 82 - The Cherokee nation, then, is a distinct community, occupying its own territory, with boundaries accurately described, in which the laws of Georgia can have no force, and which the citizens of Georgia have no right to enter, but with the assent of the Cherokees themselves, or in conformity with treaties, and with the acts of Congress.