The power of the Government to deal with territory, foreign or domestic, precisely as it chooses was understood from the beginning to be absolute; and at no stage in our whole history have we hesitated to exercise it.
Reid asserts the absolute power of the government to manage territories as it sees fit, a principle established from the nation's inception.
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