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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... limited kind of sense . Only as an interconnected whole do these provisions meaningfully constitute a frame of government for a nation of states . " 19 By " documentary character " we mean attention to the kind of docu- ment that is ...
... limited government . The distinctive genius of the American Constitution is the idea , clearly codified in the Tenth Amend- ment , 18 that every exercise of national power must be traceable to an explicit or implicit grant of power in ...
... limited government of the United States might well lack certain powers pos- sessed by unlimited governments . It is even conceivable that there could be governmental powers possessed neither by the states nor by the United States if the ...
... limited in every way except its authority to spend . The Madisonian view that ties spending to enumerated powers turns out , as we shall see shortly , to be an essentially correct account of federal spending authority , but that ...
... limited form and fashion , power - granting clauses are often primary sources of constitutional limitations ; the character of the grant often defines the scope and limits of the power . The search for a proper source of the power to ...