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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... amendment of the Constitution seems necessary for this . " 14 Jefferson expressed this view repeatedly during the summer of 1803 and even floated for discussion a number of proposed constitutional amend- ments to authorize the ...
... Amendment's declaration that " [ t ] he powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution , nor prohibited by it to the States , are reserved to the States respectively , or to the people . ” This does not mean that Represen ...
... Amendment's Due Process and Takings Clauses , and one normally presumes that words in the Constitution ( even words separated by two years ' time , as is true of the Property Clause and the Fifth Amendment ) are used consistently . The ...
... Amendments.40 Stated more precisely , the phrase " Territory or other Property belonging to the United States " is not coextensive with " prop- erty " or " private property " held by individuals . The improbability of a reasonable ...
... amendment thought that they were clarifying rather than changing the Constitution , they were endorsing an implementa- tional view of treaties . We endorse Jefferson's position , not because another half century has passed since its ...
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The Constitution of Empire: Territorial Expansion and American Legal History Gary Lawson,Guy Seidman No preview available - 2004 |