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Orange Jacobs: “It would in fact have given the territorial legislature a veto on the treaty-making power of the government.”

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It would in fact have given the territorial legislature a veto on the treaty-making power of the government.
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Orange Jacobs
Republican · Washington

Editor's note · Context

Jacobs argues that allowing territorial legislature to influence treaty-making would disrupt the balance of power.

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