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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... Acquiring Territory Fundamentals : Lessons from Louisiana 17 I. 2 . Forms : Trouble with Texas ? 86 3. Limits : Conquest and Colonialism . 103 Part II . Governing Territory 4 . 5 . 6 . Constitutional Architecture I : Territorial ...
... acquire new territory — had doubled the original land mass of the United States through the Louisiana Purchase , which extended American borders west to the Rocky Mountains and south to the Gulf of Mexico . In his 1809 letter ...
Territorial Expansion and American Legal History Gary Lawson, Guy Seidman. acquire East and West Florida , Cuba , and Canada , which would show the world “ such an empire for liberty as she has never surveyed since the creation . ” 2 ...
... acquired after the Constitu- tion was ratified rather than from the original Northwest Territory or cessions from the original states . Indeed , the rest of the Admissions Clause speaks only of territory that is already part of existing ...
... acquired after ratification of the Constitution. The Constitution is thus well suited to the addition of new states to the union. The one possible complication concerns governance of territory following its acquisition and prior to its ...