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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... course , Madison was right : the nation endures . But at another level , the ghost of Gorham can still raise a challenge . The nation has endured , but has it endured as the same nation that Madison and Gorham helped construct ? There ...
... course , can plausibly be construed to affect territorial matters in some fashion , but the list of provisions directly addressed to problems of territorial acquisition and governance is very short . These sparse texts leave open a ...
... course of two hundred years. Gorham's ghost may thus have triumphed in the end: the nation, with territories in tow, has endured beyond Gorham's expectations, but the Constitution that he helped draft got left behind in the wake. Whose ...
... no reason to fudge the process of interpretation . Of course , one should not overstate the difference between actual and hypothetical understandings ; they merge whenever a particular understanding was Introduction 9.
... course , include refer- ence to actual mental states ; one can certainly invoke the numbers , the emi- nence , or both of the proponents of a particular viewpoint . But those actual mental states are evidence of meaning ; they are not ...
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The Constitution of Empire: Territorial Expansion and American Legal History Gary Lawson,Guy Seidman No preview available - 2004 |