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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Territorial Expansion and American Legal History Gary Lawson, Guy Seidman. Acknowledgments Portions of this book appeared previously in Gary Lawson and Guy Seidman , The First " Establishment " Clause : Article VII and the Post ...
... historical survey of American territorial acquisition and governance . History has largely validated Jefferson's imperial enthusiasm . It is less clear that the Constitution does so . Gorham's Ghost When the last of the original ...
Territorial Expansion and American Legal History Gary Lawson, Guy Seidman. over mother country rules subservient colonies—an arrangement with which the founding generation had some familiarity (and generally little sympathy). Jefferson ...
Territorial Expansion and American Legal History Gary Lawson, Guy Seidman. nisms for the acquisition of new territory . Chapter 1 uses the Louisiana Pur- chase as a vehicle for discussing the most obvious method of adding territory to ...
... history somewhere near the ori- gin. As such, originalism is not a theory of interpretation. It cannot be a theory of interpretation, because an interpretative theory must, at a minimum, spec- ify what counts toward establishing meaning ...
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