Speech of Hon Alfred Iverson of Georgia On Our Territorial Policy Delivered
Speech of Hon Alfred Iverson of Georgia On Our Territorial Policy Delivered
Alfred Iverson
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Douglas] for the government of Kansas and Nebraska. I'lierc is scarcely a section of that bill that does not either make laws for the people of those Territories, or whicii does not confer power on the territorial government to make such laws, or which does not restrain the people from the exercise of sovereign power. The si. Xth section of the bill declares that " the legislative power of the Territories shall extend to all rightful subjects of le^i. Slation consistent with the Constitution of... tlie Lnited States and the pro- visions of this act. " It was this grant alone which created or conferred power upon the Ter- ritories to make laws for tne government of the people. I f not, why make the grant ? If the peo- ple of the Territories had the sovereign power to govern themselves, without any grant from Con- gress, tlun it was unnecessary, nugatory, and worse than useless, to confer such power in the organic act. It would havestultified the Congress of 1854, and especially th( authors of the bill.
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