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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... Constitution does so. Gorham's Ghost When the last of the original colonies ratified the Constitution in 1790, the United States consisted of thirteen geographically contiguous states clustered on or near the Atlantic Ocean plus a large ...
... Constitution that Madison and Gorham were drafting in the summer of 1787? Was Jefferson's effervescent (at least in 1809) attitude toward the Constitution's ability to accommodate empire justified? Imperial Constitution or Constitutional ...
... Constitution was ratified rather than from the original Northwest Territory or cessions from the original states. Indeed, the rest of the Admissions Clause speaks only of territory that is already part of existing states.∑ There are ...
... Constitution's suitability for empire if he simply meant that the Constitution accommodates the addition of new states. Notwithstanding President Jefferson's 1803 qualms about territorial acquisition, the Constitution provides ample ...
... Constitution permits the construction of ''shadow'' institutions of self-government that can achieve many of the same goals as the forbidden mechanisms. Chapter 5 demonstrates that federal judges in the territories, as is true of ...