Excerpt from The Constitution and Our New Possessions, an Answer to Ex-President Harrison: An Address Delivered Before the New York State Bar Association, at Its Annual Meeting Held at Albany, N. Y., January 16, 1901, and Reprinted From the Proceedings of the Association Our right to acquire and govern foreign territory was advocated before this Association two years ago. The problem then so momentous has passed from the stage of controversy into final judgment. The right to acquire and govern is now conceded; for two years Congress and the President have exercised it; and in the last election the action of the people's representatives was sustained by the overwhelming vote of the people themselves. 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.