Snow v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Supreme Court for the Territory of Utah; the case being thus: By the organic act, passed September 9th, 1850, establishing the Territory of Utah, it was enacted: “Section 6. The legislative power shall extend to all rightful subjects of legislation consistent with the. Constitution of the United States and the provisions of this act.”
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Error to the Supreme Court for the Territory of Utah; the case being thus: By the organic act, passed September 9th, 1850, establishing the Territory of Utah, it was enacted: “Section 6. The legislative power shall extend to all rightful subjects of legislation consistent with the. Constitution of the United States and the provisions of this act.” By the ninth section, the judicial power was vested in a supreme court, district courts, probate courts, and justices of the peace, whose jurisdiction was to be limited by law, provided, that justices should not try land titles, nor cases exceeding…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bradley
The government of the Territories of the United States belongs, primarily, to Congress; and secondarily, to such agencies as Congress may establish for that purpose. During the- term of their pupilage as Territories, they are mere dependencies Of the United States. Their people do not constitute a sovereign power. All political authority exercised therein is derived from the General Government.
It is, indeed, the practice of the government to invest these dependencies with .a limited power of self-government as soon as they have sufficient population for the purpose. The extent of the power…
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