The Constitution of Empire: Territorial Expansion and American Legal HistoryYale University Press, 2008 M10 1 - 288 pages The Constitution of Empire offers a constitutional and historical survey of American territorial expansion from the founding era to the present day. The authors describe the Constitution’s design for territorial acquisition and governance and examine the ways in which practice over the past two hundred years has diverged from that original vision. |
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... First " Establishment " Clause : Article VII and the Post- Constitutional Confederation , 78 Notre Dame L Rev 83 ( 2002 ) ; Gary Lawson and Guy Seidman , The Hobbesian Constitution : Governing without Author- ity , 95 Nw UL Rev 581 ...
... first principles " can easily outweigh even very impressive evi- dence about concrete historical understandings . Original understandings were not necessarily original meanings . History and the Constitution Our inquiry in this book is ...
... First , all of the expansion in the continental United States , including the original European expansion that generated the colonies , has involved the displacement ( to use a much - too- polite euphemism ) of the native inhabitants ...
... first clause of Article I , section 8 , the section that enumerates most of the powers of Congress , states that Congress has power to " lay and collect Taxes , Duties , Imposts and Excises , to pay the Debts and provide for the common ...
... first demonstrating that the subject was beyond the competence of the states ) . Such a " well managing clause " would have vastly altered the character of the national government from one of limited and enumerated legislative powers to ...
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The Constitution of Empire: Territorial Expansion and American Legal History Gary Lawson,Guy Seidman No preview available - 2004 |