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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... Legislatures and Executives 121 Constitutional Architecture II : Territorial Courts 139 War and Peace : Military Occupation and Governance 151 7. Bulwark or Façade ? The Rights of Territorial Inhabitants 188 Conclusion: Imperial ...
... legislatures and gover- nors , are unconstitutional , although the Constitution permits the construction of " shadow " institutions of self - government that can achieve many of the same goals as the forbidden mechanisms . Chapter 5 ...
... legislature of general jurisdiction . If one takes the moderate Hamiltonian view , as has the modern Supreme Court , the unraveling is more subtle ( because spending authority and regulatory authority are not the same thing ) , but it ...
... Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be , for the Erection of Forts , Magazines , Arsenals , dock - Yards , and other needful Buildings . " 29 This clause , argued Representative Rodney , “ is predicated on the right to ...
... Legislature ; the President originating , and Senate having a negative . To what subject this power ex- tends , has not been defined in detail by the Constitution ; nor are we entirely agreed among ourselves . 1. It is admitted that it ...