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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... least in 1809 ) attitude to- ward the Constitution's ability to accommodate empire justified ? Imperial Constitution or Constitutional Imperialism ? It is hard to form a strong conviction of any sort about the Constitution's suitability ...
... least since 1920 , when the Supreme Court held in Missouri v Holland10 that the President and Senate could regulate by treaty matters that Congress could not constitu- tionally regulate by statute . Jefferson , by contrast , viewed the ...
... territorial citizens . As does virtually everyone else who has considered the issue , we disagree with the current doctrine that permits Congress to deprive at least some territorial inhabitants of at least some of 6 Introduction.
Territorial Expansion and American Legal History Gary Lawson, Guy Seidman. at least some territorial inhabitants of at least some of these constitutional protections. Territorial inhabitants obviously do not stand in precisely the same ...
... least in its broad outlines , follows from the nature of the Constitution as a public communicative instru- ment containing directives . The Constitution addresses itself to a general au- dience , and indeed to an audience that ...