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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... original colonies ratified the Constitution in 1790 , the United States consisted of thirteen geographically contiguous states clus- tered on or near the Atlantic Ocean plus a large federal territory , destined for statehood , which ...
... original Northwest Territory or cessions from the original states . Indeed , the rest of the Admissions Clause speaks only of territory that is already part of existing states . There are two clauses that obviously concern governance of ...
... original meaning : some privileged group of drafters , some privileged group of ratifiers , or a somewhat more amorphous group of actors who one might call , for lack of a better phrase , the educated affected public . On any such ...
... original corporate charter for Rhode Island according to contemporary public meanings , evolving social values , or any interpretative method other than some variant of original public meaning . But letting normative concerns drive ...
... Original understandings were not necessarily original meanings . History and the Constitution Our inquiry in this book is , of course , academic in the purest sense of the term . American expansion is a historical fact , and it is far ...