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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... permit or accommodate territorial expansion ? If so , in what forms ? To what extent ? With what conditions or limitations ? Through which institu- tional mechanisms ? Are the provisions for territorial governance subject to the same ...
... permits the admission of new states from territory acquired after ratification of the Constitution. The Constitution is thus well suited to the addition of new states to the union. The one possible complication concerns governance of ...
... permits the President and Senate to carry into effect national powers in the international arena but does not give the national government jurisdiction beyond its other enumerated powers . On this under- standing , the Treaty Clause in ...
... permits the construction of " shadow " institutions of self - government that can achieve many of the same goals as the forbidden mechanisms . Chapter 5 demonstrates that federal judges in the territories , as is true of federal judges ...
... guaranteeing American navigational rights on the Mississippi River in Article IV , declared in Article XXII that Spain " will permit the citizens of the United States for the space of three years 18 Acquiring Territory.