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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... extended westward to the Mississippi River . Six years before citizen Jefferson penned his 1809 letter to Madison , President Jefferson- notwithstanding some now - famous constitutional doubts about the country's capacity to acquire new ...
... 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 island possessions in both the ...
... extended only to matters that were deemed to be beyond the competence of the state governments , but subject to that qualification , it would have pro- vided broad authority outside of the specific enumerations of power found elsewhere ...
... extend only to a limited range of subjects that are properly a matter for inter- national agreement . The answer turns on the eighteenth - century meaning of the word treaty . Does that term , in its constitutional context , mean any ...
... extend its legislative influence to foreign sovereigns or prevent itself or future Congresses from altering statu- tory rights granted to foreign governments . For that , the nation needs treaties : legally binding consensual ...