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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... Jefferson wrote to James Madison that “ no constitu- tion was ever before so well calculated as ours for extensive empire . ” 1 Our goal is to evaluate Jefferson's statement by undertaking a constitutional and historical survey of ...
... Jefferson was wrong ( thus far ) about the ultimate destiny of Cuba and Canada , which ended up as independent ... Jefferson's effervescent ( at least in 1809 ) attitude to- ward the Constitution's ability to accommodate empire justified ...
... Jefferson was partly right and partly wrong , a conclusion that reflects a basic ambiguity about the meaning of an ... Jefferson's conception . Alternatively , one could mean something along the lines of European empires , in which the ...
... Jefferson was largely, though not entirely, right about the 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 ...
... Jefferson . Jefferson pro- pounded a theory of the treaty power that was quite different from the con- sensus of his time , radically different from the consensus of the past two hundred years , and ultimately correct . 8 The ...
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The Constitution of Empire: Territorial Expansion and American Legal History Gary Lawson,Guy Seidman No preview available - 2004 |