Territorial Government And The Admission Of New States Into The Union

Author : Edmund Steele Joy
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528276849
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (768 download)

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Download or read book The Right of the Territories to Become States of the Union (Classic Reprint) written by Edmund Steele Joy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Right of the Territories to Become States of the Union The conflict of opinion regarding the nature of the American Union was settled by the Civil war. Many held before that time, that the Nation was the result of a compact entered into by free and independent States, which, while recognizing the Constitution as a common bond of union, yet left to each State as a part of an inherent sovereignty, the right either to nullify a national obligation or to withdraw without the circle of national influence and power. This conception of the Union, which is known as the states-rights doctrine, was adopted by the Southern States, and their deliberate acts of secession were the immediate cause of the Civil war and all its attending disasters. But with the defeat of the South, the dogma of states rights perished. Henceforth the Constitution is to be viewed, not as a compact between sovereign States, but as the fundamental law of the whole land - as the expression of the will of the entire N ation - and arguments relating to it must be based upon that fundamental conception. Among the first fruits of the triumph of the North was the adoption of three amendments to the Constitution, which gave a number of important powers to the central govern ment, which were hitherto deemed to rest exclusively withinthe province of the States. A series of acts was passed by Congress, which was in direct violation of principles hither to maintained, and manifested a disposition to exalt the national idea by eliminating from State life theories of action from which the dogma of state-rights could again spring into being. I refer to those acts relating to the reconstruction of the rebellious States and their restoration to their former practical relations with the rest of the Union, and to some acts admitting new States. The practical course pursued in the restoration of the old States throws new light upon the process of State formation and admission, which is reflected in the debates in Congress, incident to the admission of new States. It had often been maintained that the territories of the United States had the right to be admitted into the Union as States. This claim now met with rigid criticism, and even bold denial. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.