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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... actual operations of territorial governance have strayed from the Constitution's orig- inal meaning over the course of two hundred years. Gorham's ghost may thus have triumphed in the end: the nation, with territories in tow, has ...
... actual mental state . Indeed , the attempts by many modern originalists to ground meaning in historical mental states probably has much less to do with reflection on the nature of interpretation than with concerns about the normative ...
... actual historical audience that any reasonable inter- preter in that audience would necessarily have held it . But there are some contexts in which actual and hypothetical understandings do not merge . Sup- pose that a large number of ...
... actual mechanics of our originalism are not dramatically different from the mechanics of more familiar interpretative approaches : we look at the semantic meaning of the text , the instrument in which the specific text is embedded ...
... actual effects on traffic , the closure created such a stir that it seriously threatened war between the United States and Spain . After vigorous American protests , the Spanish officials , many of whom were as surprised by the action ...
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The Constitution of Empire: Territorial Expansion and American Legal History Gary Lawson,Guy Seidman No preview available - 2004 |