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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... problems encountered when expounding the Con- stitution , the problems of territorial acquisition and governance require a serious exercise in interpretation . We perform that interpretative exercise by uncovering the Constitution's ...
... problem with the acquisi- tion of territory that is intended as a future state, there are serious questions about the ability of the United States to add territories that are not slated for statehood. Historically, this calls into ...
... problems are less grave than the problems faced by every other possible understanding of the federal treaty power . In the context of territorial acquisition , federal treaty makers are capable of adding territory to the United States ...
... problem was “ cured ” in a fashion when the Philippines received independence in 1948 , but the half century of ... problems of territorial governance . Chapter 4 introduces the sparse constitutional provisions that authorize territorial ...
... problems of constitutional interpretation, and that is not our project here. But the reader does need, or at least deserve, to know what we mean when we make assertions about constitutional meaning. We approach the task of ...