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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... Clause in Article II , section 2 is analogous to the Sweeping Clause of Article I , section 8 : both are capable , but only capable , of executing other national powers . We defend that position at great length , albeit ulti- mately on ...
... Clause does not present itself as a likely candidate . Of course , if that clause was the only possible source of ... Sweeping Clause , ” as the founding generation called it , 44 unquestion- ably includes the power to enact spending ...
... Sweeping Clause , not the General Welfare Clause . And the power extends to implementing any powers granted to any federal institution , not merely the powers of Congress enumerated in Article I , section 8 . If the Sweeping Clause ...
... Clause does not grant power , but it confirms and clarifies the nature of the power to levy duties and excises . The Sweeping Clause is the natural home for the Constitution's undoubted spending authority . It is a more natural home ...
... Clause that has been with us for a long time . The Treaty Clause has almost universally been understood as a grant ... Sweeping Clause of Article I : the Sweeping Clause permits Congress to imple- ment otherwise - granted national powers ...