Synonyms:
territorial
Meaning: of or relating to a territory; "the territorial government of the Virgin Islands"; "territorial claims made by a country"
Usage examples
These territorial inhabitants require municipal law, police, and government.
I deny this right to the territorial condition, because the Territory belongs in common to the States.
In 1804, Congress gave a territorial organization to that part of it which now constitutes the State of Lousiana.
THE year 1847 marked a period of great territorial acquisition by the American people, with incalculable additions to their actual and potential wealth.
It has been sometimes assumed that this was the recognition of the power of the Territorial Legislature to exercise plenary legislation, as might that of a State.
And if Congress itself can not do this--if it is beyond the powers conferred on the Federal Government--it will be admitted, we presume, that it could not authorize a territorial government to exercise them.
The natural advantages in another district must be large to enable it to start successfully against these acquired economies, and territorial division of labor thus tends to continue for long periods when once established.
And this prohibition is not confined to the States, but the words are general, and extend to the whole territory over which the Constitution gives it power to legislate, including those portions of it remaining under territorial government, as well as that covered by States.
The answer which he seems to infer would be given "by the whole family of man" is that such a government as he supposes "can maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes." And, therefore, he concluded that he was right in the judgment of "the whole family of man" in commencing hostilities against us.
I find myself physically unable to go as fully into the subject as I intended, and therefore, omitting a reference to those acts, suffice it to say that here was the recognition of the obligation of Congress to interpose against a Territorial Legislature for the protection of personal right. That is what we ask of Congress now.
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