Excerpt from Notes on the Law of Territorial Expansion: With Especial Reference to the Philippines Submitted to the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate of the United States, March 16, 1900
Despite our acquisition of the Philippines there is a disposition to balk at its real effect. The islands are called a colony, a depend ency, a province or other name suggestive of detachment from the United States, but it will appear that by virtue of the character of our occupation they are United States territory.
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