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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... ment tries to fill the void . We study in detail the events in California during the " interregnum " of 1848-50 , during which California was governed by federal military officials without statutory authorization . The Supreme Court ap ...
... ment containing directives . The Constitution addresses itself to a general au- dience , and indeed to an audience that stretches quite far in time and space , not to a small secret society . The best understanding of “ the meaning ” of ...
... ment that is being interpreted — in this case an externally addressed set of directives for social governance - and the general interpretative principles that accompany that kind of document . In our approach , arguments from structure ...
... 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 governments in the world to possess certain ...
... ment competent to make such an acquisition . ” 21 These are not valid arguments in the context of the federal Constitution . The limited government of the United States might well lack certain powers pos- sessed by unlimited governments ...
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The Constitution of Empire: Territorial Expansion and American Legal History Gary Lawson,Guy Seidman No preview available - 2004 |