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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... President Jefferson's 1803 qualms about territorial acquisition, the Constitution provides ample authorization for the acquisition of new territory for the purpose of creating new states, and the Admissions Clause permits the admission ...
... President " shall have Power . . . to make Treaties , provided two thirds of the Senators pres- ent concur , " we ... President and Senate could regulate by treaty matters that Congress could not constitu- tionally regulate by statute ...
... President Jefferson doubted the ability of the United States to acquire Louisiana . The Constitution does not contain an express “ Territorial Acquisition Clause . ” This fact did not escape Jefferson's notice . In an 1803 letter to ...
... President " shall have Power , by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate , to make Treaties , provided two thirds of the Senators present concur . " 47 Louisiana was acquired from France by a treaty executed by the President and ...
... President could not ( under then - existing under- standings ) constitutionally regulate that subject under any of the enumerated Article I legislative powers . 59 In the wake of Holland , the relation between the treaty power and ...