The words " rules and regulations" are usually employed in the Constitution in speaking of some particular specified power which it means to confer on the Government. and not. as we have seen. when granting general powers of legislation. As. for example. In the particular power to Congress "to make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces. or the particular and specific power to regulate commerce ". " to establish a uniform rule of naturalization ". " to coin money and regulate the value thereof." And to construe the words of which we are speaking as a general and unlimited grant of sovereignty over territories which the Government might afterwards acquire. is to use them in a sense and for a purpose for which they were not used in any other part of the instrument. But if confined to a particular Territory. in which a government and laws had already been established. but which would require some alterations to adapt it to the new government. the words are peculiarly applicable and appropriate for that measure. I have been pointing out the expressions of Mr.
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