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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... . But that is 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.
... reasons for their views of meaning , and those reasons do not inevitably reduce to some method for adding actual mental states . Those reasons can involve pointing out some feature of the document that one's opponents have not yet seen ...
... reasons , views reflected in legal practices - whether legislative , executive , or judicial — are also potentially interesting and probative but not decisive . Accordingly , we use historical episodes and decided cases to illustrate ...
... reason to that conclusion from abstract premises about governmental power severed from the concrete scheme of power embodied in the Constitution . Representative Caesar Rodney , like most participants in the debate over Louisiana , read ...
... reason to bring in tax revenues unless one is going to spend them , but that does not mean that the taxing and spending powers must come from the same source . Indeed , one might well expect the contrary if one thinks that there are ...
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The Constitution of Empire: Territorial Expansion and American Legal History Gary Lawson,Guy Seidman No preview available - 2004 |