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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... Constitution does so . Gorham's Ghost When the last of the original colonies ratified the Constitution in 1790 , the United States consisted of thirteen geographically contiguous states clus- tered on or near the Atlantic Ocean plus a ...
... Constitution's ability to accommodate empire justified ? Imperial Constitution or Constitutional Imperialism ? It is hard to form a strong conviction of any sort about the Constitution's suitability as an instrument for empire from a ...
... constitutional government , and none of them is answered by express texts in the Constitution . Accordingly , the search for answers requires a careful examination of constitutional text , structure , and principles . As with so many ...
... Constitution's suit- ability for empire if he simply meant that the Constitution accommodates the addition of new states. Notwithstanding President Jefferson's 1803 qualms about territorial acquisition, the Constitution provides ample ...
... Constitution permits the construction of " shadow " institutions of self - government that can achieve many of the same goals as the forbidden mechanisms . Chapter 5 demonstrates that federal judges in the territories , as is true of ...
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The Constitution of Empire: Territorial Expansion and American Legal History Gary Lawson,Guy Seidman No preview available - 2004 |