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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... argue about , and have always argued about , meaning in the fashion that we describe . The actual mechanics of our originalism are not dramatically different from the mechanics of more familiar interpretative approaches : we look at the ...
... argued at various times — with , as we shall see , varying degrees of plausibility — to include Texas ( along with parts of Oklahoma , New Mexico , and Colorado ) , pieces of Mississippi , Alabama , and Florida , and even the Pacific ...
... argued that a power of territorial expansion is " inherent in independent nations . " Representative Thomas Sandford similarly argued that because the Constitution does not affirmatively exclude a power to acquire property , such a ...
... argued that the national government must have constitutional power to acquire territory because the Confederation gov- ernment clearly had such power and because there is no express or inferred limitation on acquisition in the ...
... argued Representative Rodney , “ is predicated on the right to purchase territory . . . and only limits that purchase by the consent of the States . If Congress have the right of purchasing territory from a State , how can gentle- men ...