The Constitution of Empire: Territorial Expansion and American Legal HistoryYale University Press, 01 հոկ, 2008 թ. - 288 էջ 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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... America by Sheridan Books , Ann Arbor , Michigan . Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data Lawson , Gary , 1958- The constitution of empire : territorial expansion and American legal history / Gary Lawson and Guy Seidman ...
... American borders west to the Rocky Mountains and south to the Gulf of Mexico . In his 1809 letter , Jefferson expressed no doubts about the constitutionality of territorial expansion . He told Madison that he expected America eventually ...
... American states , but by the end of the nineteenth century , American sovereignty extended across the North American continent , into the Caribbean , and as far across the Pacific Ocean as the Philippines . Today , America includes the ...
... American constitutional order, such as jury trials, may be poorly suited to the long-term occupation of territories that have experienced legal traditions that do not employ the full range of Anglo-American institutions. If the ...
... American War and the Spanish - American War , as part of a peace settlement . In trying to understand the Constitution's Treaty Clause , which starkly states that the President " shall have Power . . . to make Treaties , provided two ...