...Constitution of the United States declares, that " the Congress shall have power to dispose of, and make all needful rules and regulations respecting, the territory belonging to the United States." Here, a general superintending power is given : a power necessary in the very nature of , the thing;...

...ultimate power of governing the territory by virtue of the clause conferring the power to " make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory belonging to the United States." This is obvious on the face of the instrument, as well as from the necessary incidents attending the...

...лпА regulations respecting the territory belonging to the United States. The jurisihction vvilh which they are invested is not a part of That judicial power which is defined in the third article of ih»s Constitution, hut is conferred by Congress, in the execution of those general powers which that...

...sovereignly which exists in the Government, or in virtue of that clause which enables Congress to make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory...to the United States. The jurisdiction with which tlii'v are invested is not a part 01 that judicial power which is defined in the third article of the...

...negro slavery forms an exception. The Constitution declares that Congress shall have power to make "all needful rules and regulations" respecting the territory belonging to the United States. The assertion is, though the Constitution says all, it does not mean all — though it says all, withont...

...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." "This is enough — sufficiently explicit — to affirm the sovereign right of government in the owner...

...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 <ratue 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 tinction, or deny to it the benefit of the provisions and guarantees which have been pr It has been said that the construction given to this clause is new, and now for the first time brought...

...or less distinctness, seem to find this power in the direct grant to Congress of power to make " all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory belonging to the United States." Judge Nelson, having decided the whole case on the other point, very properly abstains from giving...