If the right to govern may be the inevitable consequence of the right to acquire territory, surely, and by much stronger reason, this right must be the inevitable consequence of the sovereignty of the United States, wherever there is no local government.
Sumner argues that the right to govern territories is a direct result of U.S. sovereignty in the absence of local governance.
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