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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... citizen Jefferson penned his 1809 letter to Madison , President Jefferson- notwithstanding some now - famous constitutional doubts about the country's capacity to acquire new territory — had doubled the original land mass of the United ...
... citizens . As does virtually everyone else who has considered the issue , we disagree with the current doctrine that permits Congress to deprive at least some territorial inhabitants of at least some of 6 Introduction.
... in addition to guaranteeing American navigational rights on the Mississippi River in Article IV , declared in Article XXII that Spain " will permit the citizens of the United States for the space of three years 18 Acquiring Territory.
... citizens fall within the constitutional meaning of the term treaty , 56 but acquisitions of territory , whether as part of a peace settlement or otherwise , are paradigmatic examples of treaties . Historically , the most important ...
... citizens , states , and the national government . It can even create legal rights in foreign governments and give those governments enforcement power in American courts . But Congress cannot extend its legislative influence to foreign ...
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The Constitution of Empire: Territorial Expansion and American Legal History Gary Lawson,Guy Seidman No preview available - 2004 |