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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... Executives 121 Constitutional Architecture II : Territorial Courts 139 War and Peace : Military Occupation and Governance 151 7. Bulwark or Façade ? The Rights of Territorial Inhabitants 188 Conclusion: Imperial Reflections 202 Notes ...
... executive is left to its own devices and is not acting as a direct agent of Congress . In the end , the only acquisition that we are prepared to say was unconstitu- tional was the acquisition of the Philippines . That problem was ...
... executive , or judicial — are also potentially interesting and probative but not decisive . Accordingly , we use historical episodes and decided cases to illustrate problems and questions , especially in Part II , but we do not consider ...
... executive or judicial action rather than a grant of any power - which is why it appears in Article I , section 9 , the portion of the original Constitution that is devoted to direct limitations on various federal actors . It makes ...
... executive agreements , with or with- out congressional approval , raises the additional question whether the treaty power is the exclusive mechanism by which the United States can make bind- ing international commitments.52 It is ...