By repeated decisions the Supreme Court has held that the stipulations and terms of the ordinance remained in force after the adoption of the Constitution, unless a conflict should appear, and in such a case the ordinance would yield to the Constitution.
Boutwell explains the Supreme Court's interpretation of the Ordinance's terms in relation to the Constitution, emphasizing its enduring relevance.
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Is a vote for President McKinley and his policy in the Philippine Islands a vote in harmony with the teachings and examples of Nathan Dane and Abraham Lincoln?
If the negroes in America are entitled to freedom from a state of subserviency, are not the colored races in the Philippines entitled to freedom, and that whether they are under the Constitution or beyond its jurisdiction?
President McKinley and his supporters demand subserviency of all who are not within the lines of the American seas.
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