id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 26064 Reid, Whitelaw Problems of Expansion As Considered in Papers and Addresses .txt text/plain 59842 2550 63 annexed foreign territory to the United States, like the Louisiana or Constitution to the territories of the United States is in Article IV, authority of the United States over the great Philippine Archipelago is [Sidenote: United States a Free-Trade Country.] Spanish government or its constituted authorities in said territories." war with Spain had already cost the United States far above United States, or whether acquired in treaties by the Nation itself. United States has no constitutional power to hold territory that is not ample constitutional power to acquire and govern new territory and therefore, under the Constitution of the United States, her right _The United States has as much power as any other Government._ "The Constitution of the United States established a Government, and _The United States can govern such territory as it pleases. _The United States can govern such territory through Congress._ Philippines and the war with the United States. ./cache/26064.txt ./txt/26064.txt