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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... century , American sovereignty extended across the North American continent , into the Caribbean , and as far across the Pacific Ocean as the Philippines . Today , America includes the noncontiguous states of Alaska and Hawaii and ...
... century acquisitions, most notably the acquisition of the Philippine Islands in 1899. Furthermore, just as territorial governance in preparation for eventual statehood may call for institutions of self-government, territorial governance ...
... century of American governance of the Philippines still requires constitutional justification . Some other acquisitions , furthermore , are close calls and raise issues that are serious enough and interesting enough , from the ...
... century , or ever will be conducted by ordinary people . Then and now , people give reasons for their views of meaning , and those reasons do not inevitably reduce to some method for adding actual mental states . Those reasons can ...
... century onward , or the social forces that drove American expansion through the nineteenth century . Many of the narratives in this book , especially in 12 Introduction.