If we accept the theory of the President that our title to Porto Rico and the Philippines is a good title, then that title can be exercised and enjoyed only in one of two ways under our Constitution and the example that has been set in the case of Cuba.
Boutwell discusses the constitutional implications of U.S. territorial claims over Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
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He was so great that it was not a humiliation to acknowledge a change in opinion, or to admit an error in policy or purpose.
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They were relived from the disparaging distinctions that came into existence with the system of slavery.
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