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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... arguments against these institutions . Chapter 6 explores some problems that arise when Congress fails to ex- ercise its constitutional power to govern territory and the executive depart- ment tries to fill the void . We study in detail ...
... arguments and after applying the appropriate inter- pretative baselines , would have concluded that a dissenting voice on the mean- ing of a document had the better of the argument , that dissenting voice would reflect the document's ...
... arguments , ( 2 ) was capable of synthesizing all of the relevant arguments , and ( 3 ) was unlikely to be unduly influenced by various biases that would interfere with sound pro- cessing of the evidence . As one of us has written ...
... arguments from textual structure and documentary character . By " textual structure ” we mean the text , organization , and context of the document considered as a whole . One never interprets a specific clause of the Constitution . One ...
... argument at international law that it had navigational rights ex- tending to the sea ; the Spanish governor of West Florida even seemed to accept this argument in 1808. In any event , the right to navigation on the Mississippi River was ...
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The Constitution of Empire: Territorial Expansion and American Legal History Gary Lawson,Guy Seidman No preview available - 2004 |