...armies; to provide a navy; to erect forts, magazines, arsenals, dock yards, and other needful buildings; to dispose of the territory and other property of the United States; connected with the imperious duty to support the armies, maintain the navy, and pay the debts of the...

...Union " upon KM equal footing with the original States, in all respects whatever," or in your right " to dispose of" the territory and other property of the United States ? if, Mr. President, I have succeeded in establishing the positions, that the control of this Government...

...constitution, I have already adverted to, which in express terms confers on the National Legislature the power to dispose of the " territory and other property of the Unhed States," without limitation or restriction, either in respect to the amount, or objects to which...

...confidence. The obvious construction of that clause of the Constitution, which expressly authorizes Congress to dispose of the Territory and other property of the United States, taken in connection with the context in which it is found, limits the "Territory" and other "property"...

...proposed measure. The coiistitmio:i itsell imposes no restriction, but gives Congress unlimited powers " to dispose of the territory and other property of the United States." It therefore becomes necessary that we should inquire into the right, which Congress has to make such...

...own discretion. This power they deduce from that clause in the constitution, which gives to Congress power to dispose of the territory and other property of the United States. The clause in question reads ; " The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules...

...exercise strictly to the nature and object of the trust." The clause of the Constitution which gives to Congress "the power to dispose of" the territory and other property of the United States, is, in every sense of the word, but a trust to sell; and it is expressly declared, by way of caution,...

...actual consolidation of the Federal' and State governments." The power specifically given to Congress " to dispose of the territory and other property of the "United States" was to be used only for the objects specifically enumerated in the Constitution. At least the public...

...under the navigable waters of New Jersey. Congress is the organ of the national government that has the power to dispose of the territory and other property of the United States. Const, art. 4, § 3. In the territories the national government is both the sovereign and proprietor....

...under the navigable waters of New Jersey. Congress is the organ of the national government that has the power to dispose of the territory and other property of the United States. Const, art. 4, § 3. In the territories the national government is both the sovereign and proprietor....