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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... effect . Can it be supposed that this vast Country including the Western territory will 150 years hence remain one nation ? ” 4 At one level , of course , Madison was right : the nation endures . But at another level , the ghost of ...
... effect national powers in the international arena but does not give the national government jurisdiction beyond its other enumerated powers . On this under- standing , the Treaty Clause in Article II , section 2 is analogous to the ...
... effects in the port of New Orleans , and to export them from thence without paying any other duty than a fair price for the hire of the stores , and his Majesty promises either to continue this permission if he finds during that time ...
... effect as domestic law without legislative implementation.51 And the prevalence of executive agreements , with or with- out congressional approval , raises the additional question whether the treaty power is the exclusive mechanism by ...
... effect national powers found in the Constitution , but it cannot function as a free - standing power , divorced from connection to the exercise of some other enumerated power . In this respect , the Treaty Clause is analogous to the ...