Show 4 12 6 tho inalienable eights rights of manthe constitution provides that floew new states maybe may ba admitted into the union the expression Is ia unqualified it t implies state that is to say in independent d epen spen dent ovil etli o vil exist enca euca anterior t to 0 the fact of admission it implies 3 tha natural right of congregated human beings to conati constitute tute the rafel idesa a state when eve ove fo bho to V do iu ia la ia conformity with titi tite ir tor ton their inclinations furthermore further Farther more wore it implies concurrent can current consent by the state and the united tho latter to admit the former to be ba chatom may be the current dogmas touch ing the compact obligations 0 states in the union either tho the prin caples upon which the american amerlean Ameri amerl eal cal revolution was prosecuted aro amm falla eles eleb or the natural rights of men cannot be justly dimisher diml diral shed or impair ed by any institution covenant or 01 ordinance to which their own free tre consent has not been accorded the tha idea that a congregation of ol 01 persons persona from the older states and from other countries who have purchased and settled upon a portion of tho the public domain are therefore less capable to understand and manage their own civil interests and affairs than the of the parts from which they emigrated ed and need the supervision and direction of an exterior authority Is neither good law nor sound reason but unwarranted assumption the pre pretense teme because the tha inhabitants of regions not included within the associated states purchased the lands they occupy of the federal government that therefore their persons person their domesticities domestici ties their docial customs and religious beliefs and practices are portions of the territory or other property of thel thol the united states which congressi under the constitution hay has haa power to dispose of and malke maike rules and regulations concerning adopted as ai it has been as a rule of conduct by congressional con ties and sanctioned by a solomn decision of the highest judicial tribunal of the land is so destitute of either rational or institutional foundation as to tn r reflect fie ct the reverse of credit upon those by whom it was invented und sustained there is nothing in the character of the people of the new now communities nor in their circumstances to indicate that they are leis leib ss competent to order their own affairs than the people of the older ones the assumption that because they have recently changed their place of faa residence si or they have settled sett t ed upon lands purchased from the E state tate or because of anything olse oise t that rat int can be imagined they have surrendered or parted with or by any means whatsoever oever been divested of tiny of their natural rights or facilities so eo as to merit or to require or to be justly amenable to a regimen other than of their own construction st if it vere were not actual would be incredible either tho right of self govern ment which impalea implies freedom at will to establish maintain amend and abolish municipal institutions institution SJ and to ordain and annul in a respect to whatsoever is within tho the proper sphere of civil regulation is inherent in mankind or it is not if it Is then every act of an exterior power no matter upon what claim or pre pretense tenee whereby its exercise is in any manner directly or indirectly forestalled or suspended ia 13 manifestly an act of despotism it if it is not then thein tho the only definable human right is the right of the strongest between tho the two there Is no middle term men aren are ej either ther citizens parts of the fountain and source of power orth or they eyare arb are subjects things over which power asserts an irresponsible dominion the moment they pass from the condition of the one une they fall into that of the other and government is lawful or lawless according as it conserves or invades aho ahe ho liberties of thole those over oven whom its to agency is extended the right of civil government over the people of the territories it if it exist should have been specified or pro ded ced for 1 in the tho constitution anit ica ican 71 ke gister |