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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... foreign territory acquired after the Constitu- tion was ratified rather than from the original Northwest Territory or cessions from the original states . Indeed , the rest of the Admissions Clause speaks only of territory that is ...
... foreign sovereign by treaty , either by purchase or , as happened at the end of the Mexican - American War and the Spanish - American War , as part of a peace settlement . In trying to understand the Constitution's Treaty Clause , which ...
... foreign Nations , and among the several States , and with the Indian Tribes . ” 20 That status , and its implications for territorial acquisition and governance , is outside the scope of our survey . Second , there might have been a ...
... foreign territory , and still less of incorporating it into the Union . An amendment of the Constitution seems necessary for this . " 14 Jefferson expressed this view repeatedly during the summer of 1803 and even floated for discussion ...
... foreign sovereigns . It might in fact do so , but one can only discover the answer by identifying the precise source of power to acquire domestic territory and examining whether that power ex- tends to transactions such as the Louisiana ...