Download or read book Some Constitutional Aspects of Territorial Expansion (Classic Reprint) written by Howard Leslie Smith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Some Constitutional Aspects of Territorial Expansion Second: Such Territories, once annexed, it follows from the foregoing considerations that they can not be held in military subjection; that they can not be ruled arbitrarily, either by the President or by Congress, or by both combined; that the Philippine will have the same personal rights un der the Constitution as the citizen of Illinois; that the writ of habeas corpus must always be available to him; that trial byjury can not be abridged; that no separate scheme of imposts or excises can be enforced in such colonies different from that in the mother country, and that all the inhabit ants of such annexed territory, or at the very latest, their children born subsequent to the annexation, must have free access to all portions of the United States and the same political rights as other citizens in like situation. In view of this last proposition it is scarcely to be wondered at that the most strenuous opposition thus far developed to this scheme of annexation comes from the laborers of the country and their leaders. 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.