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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... interpretation . We perform that interpretative exercise by uncovering the Constitution's original meaning — which , as we shall soon explain , is not necessarily the same operation that often takes place , or is often thought to take ...
... interpretation, and that is not our project here. But the reader does need, or at least deserve, to know what we mean when we make assertions about constitutional meaning. We approach the task of constitutional interpretation from a ...
... interpretation conflates the question what the Constitution means with the very different question whether the Constitution , given its meaning , is a sound basis for decision - making.15 We view the in- terpretation of the Constitution ...
... interpretation . Assuming that the mental states are known , 17 those mental states are only good evidence of meaning if they were formed by someone ( 1 ) who considered all of the relevant arguments , ( 2 ) was capable of synthesizing ...
... interpreted — in this case an externally addressed set of directives for social governance - and the general interpretative principles that accompany that kind of document . In our approach , arguments from structure and " first ...