A dissenting minority opinion that flew in the face of practice and law going back to the original founders, signers and authors of the Constitution.
So, you're saying that the Constitution of the United States provides for the federal government to acquire territories anywhere upon the earth, by conquest or treaty, and to hold them as mere colonies or provinces, - the people inhabiting them to enjoy only such rights as Congress chooses to accord them? Isn't that like a despotic or monarchical government? Didn't the founding fathers have a dust up with a certain King george in the 18th century about precisely that? Isn't government by consent of the governed key to the American experiment in democracy?
Could you please point me to the article of the Constitution that allows this?