National Bank v. County of Yankton

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• Congressional annulment and reenactment of statute passed in territorial legislature of South Dakota authorized local issuance of railway bonds
• “All territory within the jurisdiction of the United States not included in any State must necessarily be governed by or under the authority of Congress”
• “[Congress] may make a void act of the territorial legislature valid, and a valid act void. In other words, it has full and complete legislative authority over the people of the Territories and all the departments of the territorial governments.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).