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Excerpt from A History of Military Government in Newly Acquired Territory of the United States When the Constitution of the United States was drafted and adopted no specific provision was made for expansion. In consequence of this, some have doubted whether we had the power to acquire new territory, and especially to incor porate it with the Old. In spite of this, however, we have acquired a domain much larger than that comprised within the boundaries of the original thirteen States. The govern ment of such territory before its incorporation has pre sented some interesting problems. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.