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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... officials and non - Article III courts to show that Con- gress and the courts have never answered the serious constitutional arguments against these institutions . Chapter 6 explores some problems that arise when Congress fails to ex ...
... officials , many of whom were as surprised by the action as were the Americans , relented and restored the right of deposit in New Orleans on May 17 , 1802 . At least some founding - era Americans had had their eyes on the territory to ...
... officials . It was well understood in eighteenth - century English law that grants from Parliament of discretionary governmental authority carried the implied provision that exercises of discretion had to be reasonable . 125 The ...
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The Constitution of Empire: Territorial Expansion and American Legal History Gary Lawson,Guy Seidman No preview available - 2004 |