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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... legislatures and gover- nors , are unconstitutional , although the Constitution permits the construction of " shadow ... power to govern territory and the executive depart- ment tries to fill the void . We study in detail the events in ...
... power to the national government . Jeffrey Renz has aptly identified three ... legislature of general jurisdiction . If one takes the moderate Hamiltonian ... powers turns out , as we shall see shortly , to be an essentially correct ...
... power to use excises and duties for regulatory as well as revenue - raising ... power of territorial acquisition . The District Clause gives Congress power “ To ... Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be , for the Erection of ...
... power " to provide , as may become necessary , from time to time , for the ... legislative powers to one of general powers , of appropriation or otherwise ... legislative powers are found : " The Congress shall have Power to dispose of ...
... power would all lead to the conclusion that the purchase was consti ... legislative powers of Congress.49 Modern scholars debate whether treaties ... legislative implementation.51 And the prevalence of executive agreements , with or with ...
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The Constitution of Empire: Territorial Expansion and American Legal History Gary Lawson,Guy Seidman No preview available - 2004 |