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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... Treaty Clause , which starkly states that the President " shall have Power . . . to make Treaties , provided two ... treaty power that was quite different from the con- sensus of his time , radically different from the consensus of the ...
... Clause . ” This fact did not escape Jefferson's notice . In an 1803 letter ... treaty . " 16 But a search for constitutional meaning cannot take even late ... treaty power ( " or treaty ” ) . Because the Jefferson Administration ...
... treaty power to include a power of territorial acquisi- tion , 22 but he advanced as well a number of alternative grounds for the legality of the Louisiana Purchase . The first clause of Article I , section 8 , the section that ...
... Clause as a limitation on and clarification of the taxing power elegantly meshes with founding - era understandings ... treaty power . The United States cannot make treaties with its own states . Treaties , by their nature , are compacts ...
... Clause as a guarantee of Congress's power to use duties and excises as a regulatory tool , which was a practice ... Treaty Clause , which is where this discussion began and to where it will now return . Enumerations and Treaties The ...