As there is no express regulation in the Constitution defining the power which the General overnment may exercise over the person or property of a citizen in a territory acquired. the court must necessarily look to the proSvisions and principles of the Constitution and its distribution of powers for the rules and principles by which its decision must be governed. Taking this rule to guide us. It may be safely assumed that citizens of the United ttes who immigrat to a territory belonging to the people of the United States can not be ruled as mere colonists. dependent upon tle will of the General Government and to be governed by any laws it may think proper to impose. The territory being a part of the United States. the government and the citizens both enter it under the authority of the Constitution with their respective rights defined and marked out. And the Federal Government can exercise no power over his personal property beyond what that instrument confers. nor lawfully deny any right which It has reserved.
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