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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... island possessions in both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans . The founding generation was intensely interested in the geographical extent of the American polity . Madison's famous defense of the extended republic in The Federalist3 was a ...
... Islands in 1899. Furthermore, just as territorial governance in preparation for eventual statehood may call for institutions of self-government, territorial governance for colonial purposes may call for the opposite. Many staples of the ...
... Island according to contemporary public meanings , evolving social values , or any interpretative method other than some variant of original public meaning . But letting normative concerns drive interpretation conflates the question ...
... Islands fol- lowing the Spanish - American War , Senator George Hoar , without expressly invoking Jefferson , articulated an implementational theory of the power of the United States to acquire territory . Although Senator Hoar derived ...
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