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The Constitution Extended to Hawaii

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 24, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 17.

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The Constitution Extended to Hawaii

CONGRESS gives to Hawaii a Territorial government, with a delegate in Congress, “extension of the Constitution” and all. Hawaii is an island possession about three times as far away from the United States as is Porto Rico. If the Constitution can be “extended” that far from the western shore of the mainland of the United States, why is it that it can not be extended one third as far from the southeastern shore?