...Scott v. Sandford ( (1857) 19 How. 303), Chief Justice Roger B. Taney said in one of his conclusions : "There is certainly no power given by the Constitution...enlarge its territorial limits in any way except by admission of new States. That power is plainly given, and if a new State is admitted it needs no further...

...Estados Unidos tuviesen poder para establecer un sistema colonial. Afirmó Taney sobre este extremo: "There is certainly no power given by the Constitution...distance, to be ruled and governed at its own pleasure; ... and if a new state is admitted, it needs no further legislation by Congress, because the Constitution...

...Congressional statute prohibiting slavery in the Missouri Territory,194 Chief Justice Taney had stated: "There is certainly no power given by the Constitution...or maintain colonies bordering on the United States orat a distance, to be ruled and governed at its own pleasure; ... no power is given to acquire a territory...

...absolute powers of sovereignty in the territories, Taney then made these often quoted declarations: There is certainly no power given by the Constitution...limits in any way, except by the admission of new States.1'2 But no power is given to acquire a Territory to be held and governed in that character (colony)....

...interpretation of the US Constitution with respect to territories and deserves quotation at length: There is certainly no power given by the Constitution...in any way, except by the admission of new States. That power is plainly given; and if a new State is admitted it needs no further legislation by Congress,...

...found comfort, oddly enough, in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), in which Chief Justice Taney wrote: "There is certainly no power given by the constitution...Federal Government to establish or maintain colonies ... to be ruled and governed at its own pleasure, nor to enlarge its territorial limits in any way...

...Co. v. Canter. 26 US (12 Wheat.) 511(1 828). 77 Dred Scott v. Sandford. 60 US (19 How.) 393 (1857). There is certainly no power given by the Constitution...in any way, except by the admission of new States. Id. at 446. 54 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review [Vol. 34 The power to expand the territory...

...United States from taking any property which he lawfully held into a territory of the United States. This brings us to examine by what provision of the...in any way, except by the admission of new states. That power is plainly given ; and if a new state is admitted, it needs no further legislation by Congress,...

...provision for a known and particular territory, and to meet a present emergency, and nothing more. . . . This brings us to examine by what provision of the...bordering on the United States or at a distance, to be ailed and governed at its own pleasure; nor to enlarge its territorial limits in any way, except by...

...the specter of the US slavery past by citing Judge Taney's opinion in the Dred Scott (1857) decision: "There is certainly no power given by the constitution...on the United States or at a distance, to be ruled or governed at its own pleasure."20 This decision allowed the absolute negation of the political and...