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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 8 8 Browse Search
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d eventually restore harmony among the States. Accordingly, in his Inaugural Address, he had declared that to this decision, whatever it might be, he should, in common with all good citizens, cheerfully submit. This was his imperative duty. Our free form of government must soon be destroyed, should the Executive set up his judgment against that of the coordinate judicial branch, on a question clearly within its constitutional jurisdiction. Two days after the inauguration, on the 6th of March, 1857, the Supreme Court pronounced its judgment. This was delivered by Chief Justice Taney, and embraced all the points in controversy. It established the following propositions: 1. Congress has power to acquire territory, to be held by the United States until it is in a suitable condition to become a State upon an equal footing with the other States. 2. This territory is acquired by the General Government, as the representative and trustee of the people of the United States, and i