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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... acquisition and governance . History has largely validated Jefferson's imperial enthusiasm . It is less clear that the Constitution does so . Gorham's Ghost When the last of the original colonies ratified the Constitution in 1790 , the ...
... acquisition and governance . There is no express clause concerning the acquisition of terri- tory . The Admissions Clause in Article IV provides that 2 Introduction.
... acquisition and governance is very short . These sparse texts leave open a great many questions . Does the Constitution in fact permit or accommodate territorial expansion ? If so , in what forms ? To what extent ? With what conditions ...
... acquisition, the Constitution provides ample authorization for the acquisition of new territory for the purpose of creating new states, and the Admissions Clause permits the admission of new states from territory acquired after ...
... acquisition from a foreign sovereign by treaty , either by purchase or , as happened at the end of the Mexican - American War and the Spanish - American War , as part of a peace settlement . In trying to understand the Constitution's ...