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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... answered by express texts in the Constitution . Accordingly , the search for answers requires a careful examination of constitutional text , structure , and principles . As with so many problems encountered when expounding the Con ...
... answered the serious constitutional arguments against these institutions . Chapter 6 explores some problems that arise when Congress fails to ex- ercise its constitutional power to govern territory and the executive depart- ment tries ...
... answer by identifying the precise source of power to acquire domestic territory and examining whether that power ex- tends to transactions such as the Louisiana Purchase . So where in the Constitution does the federal government get the ...
... answer to this problem is quite straightforward : the Constitu- tion's Spending Clause authorizes the federal government to spend funds to acquire property . What could possibly be simpler ? But although the Spending Clause is well ...
... answer turns on the eighteenth - century meaning of the word treaty . Does that term , in its constitutional context , mean any agree- ment between sovereign nations on any subject , or does it refer only to a subset of agreements ...