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. |
From inside the book
Արդյունքներ 63–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
... Louisiana 17 I. 2 . Forms : Trouble with Texas ? 86 3. Limits : Conquest and Colonialism . 103 Part II . Governing Territory 4 . 5 . 6 . Constitutional Architecture I : Territorial Legislatures and Executives 121 Constitutional ...
... Louisiana Purchase , which extended 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 ...
... Louisiana Pur- chase as a vehicle for discussing the most obvious method of adding territory to the United States : acquisition from a foreign sovereign by treaty , either by purchase or , as happened at the end of the Mexican ...
... Louisiana , the significance of Spain's steadily declining influence from the eighteenth century onward , or the social forces that drove American expansion through the nineteenth century . Many of the narratives in this book ...
... the United States and with the governance of that territory's non - Indian popula- tion . Those concerns present problems enough for one book . Acquiring Territory PART I Fundamentals : Lessons from Louisiana I Introduction 13.