...pronounced the following concise decision: " The Constitution confers absolutely on the government of the Union the powers of making war and of making...acquiring territory either by conquest or by treaty." A generation later the same question arose in the celebrated Dred Scott case. In the opinion of the...

...Insurance Co. v. Canter (i Pet. 542, 7 L. Ed. 255): 'The Constitution confers absolutely on the government of the Union the powers of making war and of making...power of acquiring territory, either by conquest or treaty (see Sere v. Pilot, 6 Cranch, 336, 3 L. Ed. 240).' And, I add, it also possesses the power of...

...well settled that they undergo no change as a result of a transfer of territory, either by conquest or treaty.' " The usage of the world is, if a nation...be not entirely subdued, to consider the holding of a conmore, §§ 539-579; Kliiber, § 257; dissolved, but their relations to I Halleck, p. 266 ; II...

...case of the American Insurance Co. v. Canter.1 " The constitution confers absolutely on the government of the Union the powers of making war and of making treaties ; 1 1 Pet. 542. consequently that government possesses the power of acquiring territory either by conquest...

...decision of Chief Justice Marshall, who said, " The Constitution confers absolutely on the government of the Union the powers of making war and of making...acquiring territory, either by conquest or by treaty." The circumstances attending the acquisition of Porto Rico and the Philippines, and the peculiar character...

...Canter, 1 Pet. 511, 542: "The Constitution confers absolutely upon the GovOpinion of the Court. emment of the Union the powers of making war and of making...acquiring territory, either by conquest or by treaty." The territory thus acquired is acquired as absolutely as if the annexation were made, as in the case of...

...decision of Chief Justice Marshall, who said, " The Constitution confers absolutely on the government of the Union the powers of making war and of making...acquiring territory, either by conquest or by treaty." The circumstances attending the acquisition of Porto Rico and the Philippines, and the peculiar character...

...involved was declared by the court in 1828, that "the Constitution confers absolutely on the government of the Union the powers of making war and of making...acquiring territory either by" conquest or by treaty." 4 Thus, nearly a quarter of a century after the acquisition of Louisiana, and nine years after the...

...Mr. Chief Justice Marshall, said (p. 542) : "The Constitution confers absolutely on the government of the Union the powers of making war, and of making...acquiring territory, either by conquest or by treaty." In United States v. Hucknbee, (1872) 16 Wall. 414, the court, speaking through Mr. Justice Clifford,...

...conquest, from the constitution itself. He says : "The constitution confers absolutely on the government of the Union the powers of making war and of making...acquiring territory either by conquest or by treaty." While this decision stands, there is no room for the suggestion that the power of the United States...