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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... 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 , especially in 12 Introduction.
... Spain over much of the river's length . But “ on its last two hundred miles or so , Spain controlled both banks . . . . No one , therefore , could navigate the lower Mississippi any more than one could travel by land across Spanish ...
... Spain , or if he should not agree to continue it there , he will assign to them , on another part of the banks of the Mississippi , an equivalent establishment . " This right to store goods on land duty - free pending their shipment was ...
... Spain was , in any event , in no condition to stand up to Napoleon . The French , however , did not actually carry through their part of the bargain , 10 and the king of Spain did not for- mally order the transfer of Louisiana to France ...
... Spain to work out , and Spain dropped its objections . Had Spain not relented , it is unclear why that would not have been America's problem as well ; if Spain still owned Louisiana , France had nothing to sell . The more pertinent ...