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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... matters in some fashion , but the list of provisions directly addressed to problems of territorial acquisition and ... matter whether the nation is at war or peace ? These are all very basic questions about American constitutional ...
... matter of constitutional law at least since 1920 , when the Supreme Court held in Missouri v Holland10 that the President and Senate could regulate by treaty matters that Congress could not constitu- tionally regulate by statute ...
... matter of real - world politics , to retrace the road now . We did not write this book in order to influence the course of world events . Our goals , instead , are twofold . First , we think it is useful to tell the story of American ...
... matters — terminated the right of deposit at New Orleans . Spain did not , under the terms of Article XXII of the Treaty of San Lorenzo , " assign ... , on another part of the banks of the Mississippi , an equivalent establishment " of ...
... matter , whether and in what fashion the Constitution permits the United States to expand its territory . Chief Justice Marshall located the source of his assumed power of acquisi- tion in the war powers ( " by conquest " ) and the ...
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The Constitution of Empire: Territorial Expansion and American Legal History Gary Lawson,Guy Seidman No preview available - 2004 |