On the record
Reverse the circumstances and let British Columbia attempt to extend its taxing power over that island, and our government would resist the insult with all its military power.
Source
gutenberg.orgOrange Jacobs: “Reverse the circumstances and let British Columbia attempt to extend its taxing power over that island, and our…”
Editor's note · Context
Jacobs illustrates the hypothetical scenario of British Columbia extending its taxing power, suggesting it would provoke a military response from the U.S.
Share
More from Orange Jacobs
The science consists of the principles upon which that art rests.
Pioneers, Washington, with all her grand resources--developed and yet to be developed--won by your privations, courage and patriotism, is your gift to the Union, to be consecrated to liberty, regulated by law, forever.
While the light of ages comes streaming down the pathway of history, it illumes the present and enlarges the scope of human knowledge, yet it gives no prophetic insight, hence, which will be the final victor is unseen.
However, I was trying to show that pioneer lawyers were forced to do their own reasoning, to rely upon their own intellectual powers.
Other voices in this conversation
