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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... important premises with this conception of originalism . We agree that the meaning of a document such as the Constitution must be deter- mined by reference to the public audience to which the document is most plausibly addressed . The ...
... important than its reality . ) As a brute social fact , such a document will not succeed in its mission if it is accepted only by its authors or a small set of ratifiers . It will only succeed if a sufficiently large percentage of the ...
... important , even if only for purposes of intellectual clarity , to understand the Constitution's original scheme of territorial acquisition and governance . There are two major sets of questions pertaining to territorial affairs that we ...
... important question concerning the treaty power has concerned whether the treaty power extends to matters beyond the legislative competence of Congress . This question whether there is a precise congruence between the scope of the treaty ...
... important propositions about the treaty power that are worth considering . Jefferson's first proposed restriction on the treaty power - that treaties must genuinely concern foreign nations — is not as obvious as it may sound . Jeffer ...