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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... 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 that he expected America eventually to acquire East ...
Territorial Expansion and American Legal History Gary Lawson, Guy Seidman. acquire East and West Florida , Cuba , and ... Western territory will 150 years hence remain one nation ? ” 4 At one level , of course , Madison was right : the ...
... west of the Allegheny Moun- tains did not . As late as 1817 , a trip from Cincinnati to New York took at least fifty days , while a trip from Liverpool to New York took only forty . Overland transportation costs were correspondingly ...
... west of the Mississippi River.4 Americans , as the owners of a good portion of the east bank of the Mississippi River , had joint navigation rights with Spain over much of the river's length . But “ on its last two hundred miles or so ...
... west of their borders for quite some time , but these events on the Mississippi River intensified the pressure to acquire the port of New Orleans and / or other access to the Gulf of Mexico . One option , which had plenty of adherents ...