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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... clearly Jefferson's conception . Alternatively , one could mean something along the lines of European empires , in which the over mother country rules subservient colonies—an arrangement with which the Introduction 3.
... clearly destined for , and eventually achieved , statehood , easily satis- fies that standard . Subsequent acquisitions are not always such easy cases . In Chapters 2 and 3 , we apply our theory of the treaty power to the Ameri- can ...
... Clearly, it would require a separate book even to introduce the myriad problems of constitutional interpretation, and that is not our project here. But the reader does need, or at least deserve, to know what we mean when we make ...
... clearly codified in the Tenth Amend- ment , 18 that every exercise of national power must be traceable to an explicit or implicit grant of power in the document . On this understanding , it is en- tirely possible for all other ...
... clearly had such power and because there is no express or inferred limitation on acquisition in the Constitution . " If the old Confederation - a mere government of States- a loosely connected league ... could rightfully acquire ...
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The Constitution of Empire: Territorial Expansion and American Legal History Gary Lawson,Guy Seidman No preview available - 2004 |