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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... constitutionally forbidden institutions . as elective territorial officials and non - Article III courts to show that Con- gress and the courts have never answered the serious constitutional arguments against these institutions ...
... constitutionally acquire territory through discovery . But as far as the Louisiana Purchase is concerned , the proper focus of attention would seem to be the treaty power . That assumption proves to be correct , at least in part : the ...
... constitutionally competent to enter into the deal . In the case of the Louisiana Purchase , matters do turn out to be as simple as they seem . Indeed , if the Louisiana Purchase were the only acquisition of territory in American history ...
... constitutionally regulate that subject under any of the enumerated Article I legislative powers . 59 In the wake of Holland , the relation between the treaty power and Congress's legislative powers was the subject of the attempt led by ...
... constitutionally granted powers . Laws enacted pursuant to the Sweeping Clause must be “ necessary and proper ” for their implementational purpose . One of us has spent a fair portion of his professional life plumbing the meaning of the ...