James Monroe: “The treaty was submitted to the consideration of the Cortes of that Kingdom before its ratification, which was finally…”

I transmit to the Senate a convention, signed by the plenipotentiaries of the United States and of the Republic of Colombia at Bogota on the 10th of December, 1824, together with the documents appertaining to the negotiation of the same…

That the regulation should be made by Congress is the more necessary from the consideration that this being the seat of the Government, its protection against such diseases must form one of its principal objects.

The attitude assumed by the State formed a case which was not contemplated by the existing laws of the United States relating to militia services.

The exposure being common to the whole District, the regulation should apply to the whole, to make which Congress alone possesses the adequate power.