The question is now whether, in the fact of the language of the treaty of 1880, it is our right--not our power, but our right according to the treaty--to make this exceptional legislation for people who are now here under existing law.
Sherman questions the legality of exceptional legislation regarding individuals under existing treaties.
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Resolved, That the people who constitute the supreme power in the United States, should guard with jealous care the rights of the several states, as independent governments.
Thus the Kansas question became a political question in the Supreme Court.
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