...based on Article IV of the Constitution, which stated: "The Congress shall have Power to ... make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory . . . belonging to the United States." The leading opponent of the proviso was John C. Calhoun, who argued that Congress had no right to prohibit...

...attenuated, resting only in Article IV's statement that Congress "shall have power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory . . . belonging to the United States." 4 8 The challenges advanced in the Insular Cases, most of which involved efforts on the part of Congress...

...United States, despite the fact that the Constitution expressly gives Congress the power to "make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory . . . belonging to the United States" (Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2). The Court said Congress could not make rules which prevented slaveholders...

...Pet. 511, the power considered in those cases was that granted by Article IV, Section 3, to "make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory * * * belonging to the United States," a power that is obviously irrelevant when the United States is on foreign soil with the consent of...

...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 the judicial power which is defined...

...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." It has been said that the construction given to this clause is new, and now for the first time brought...

...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. . . Although admiralty jurisdiction can be exercised, in the States, in those courts only *' which...

...the Constitution explicitly provided that "[t]he Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory . . . belonging to the United States," and that Congress had the power to admit "[n]ew States" into the Union. So why did Thomas Jefferson,...

...to Congress's authority under the Territory Clause of the Constitution *^o dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory... belonging to the United States." Puerto Rico receives a number of benefits from this status, such as favorable tax treatment. And Puerto...