Word: asserts
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...however unwise the course may be, it must make that territory a part of itself. It assuredly was not the intention of the Constitution's makers thus to render the United States unable to exercise the ordinary incidents of the power to make treaties and declare war. If we assert this principle in the face of our present problems we put a construction upon the Constitution not only fallacious but certain to work the most disastrous results in the future. We might thus argue from the point of view of the United States, but we prefer to lay special stress...