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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... land mass of the United States through the Louisiana Purchase , which extended American borders west to the Rocky Mountains and south to the Gulf of Mexico . In his 1809 letter , Jefferson expressed no doubts about the constitutionality ...
... land across Spanish territory , without permission from Spain . ” 5 In addi- tion , Spain owned East and West Florida , which encompassed the present state of Florida plus a strip extending from the Florida Panhandle through present ...
... land duty - free pending their shipment was known as the “ right of deposit . ” The right of deposit obviated the need to load goods sent down the Mississippi immediately onto shipping vessels or to store them on riverboats until they ...
... land to double the area of the United States . It unambiguously encompassed all or major parts of the present states of Louisiana , Arkansas , Missouri , Iowa , Minnesota , North Dakota , South Dakota , Nebraska , Kansas , Oklahoma ...
... land from a state ? Consider a far more basic question : where does the federal government get the power to buy any kind of property , such as paper clips from a private contractor ? The question is not as trivial as it may seem . Not ...