The Rights of Citizenship

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Excerpt from The Rights of Citizenship: Brief in Re H. R. Bills, 6153, and the Petition of the Citizens of Bear Lake County, Idaho TerritoryThe United States, under the present constitution, cannot acquire terri tory to be held as a colony, to be governed at its will and pleasure. But it may acquire territory which, at the time, has not a population that fits it to become a state, and may govern it as a territory until it has a population which, in the judgment of Congress, entitles it to be admitted as a state of the Union. During the time it remains a territory, Congress may legislate over it within the scope of its constitutional powers in relation to citizens of the United States and may establish a territorial government, and the form of this local government must be regulated by the discretion of Congress, but with powers not exceeding those which Congress itself, by the constitution, is authorized to exercise over citizens of the United States in respect to their rights of person, or rights of property. The territory thus acquired is ac quired by the people of the United States for their common and equal benefit, through their agent and trustee, the federal government. Congress can exercise no power over the rights of persons or property of a citizen in the territory which is prohibited by the constitution.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.