Wheatland Tube v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “the United States may have territory ... which is not incorporated into the United States as a body politic,” and describing the Philippines as a “ceded territory ... not made a part of the United States”
• fundamental constitutional guarantees in favor of individual rights in the Philippines cannot be transcended by Congress
• the right to jury trial was not extended by the Federal Constitution, without legislation, and of its own force, to the Philippines, because they were not incorporated by congressional action
• right to jury trial did not extend to Philippine Territory where civilized areas were accustomed to non-jury trials under Spanish rule, and “uncivilized” areas inhabited by “savage” people were unfit to exercise the right
• Congress has \refrained from incorporating the Philippines into the United States\
• “[T]he civilized portion of the islands had a system of jurisprudence founded upon the civil law, and the uncivilized parts of the archipelago were wholly unfitted to exercise the right of trial by jury.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).