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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... peace ? These are all very basic questions about American constitutional government , and none of them is answered by express texts in the Constitution . Accordingly , the search for answers requires a careful examination of ...
... peace settlement . In trying to understand the Constitution's Treaty Clause , which starkly states that the President " shall have Power . . . to make Treaties , provided two thirds of the Senators pres- ent concur , " we are drawn once ...
... Peace with Great Britain , the Mississippi River marked the western boundary of the United States . From its source in Min- nesota , the Mississippi River runs south along the present - day states of Min- nesota , Wisconsin , Iowa ...
... peace , trade , and comity ? It is possible that the word treaty was generally understood in 1788 to refer only to a certain class of international agreements.55 Mercifully , we need not address this potentially vexing question here ...
... peace — is beyond the enumerated powers of Congress.61 A much simpler example , how- ever , is readily available : Congress does not have the power to end a war , but the President and the Senate can formalize the end of a war by treaty ...