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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... proper social and historical context in which the mental states must be under- stood - but it is a historical fact nonetheless . We share many important premises with this conception of originalism . We agree that the meaning of a ...
... proper object of inquiry is a hypothetical mental state , not an actual mental state . Indeed , the attempts by many modern originalists to ground meaning in historical mental states probably has much less to do with reflection on the ...
... proper focus of attention would seem to be the treaty power . That assumption proves to be correct , at least in part : the treaty power was an essential tool in the acquisition of Louisiana . A number of participants in the debates ...
... proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers , and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States , or in any Department or Officer thereof . ” 43 This " Sweeping Clause , ” as the ...
... proper " for carrying into execution an independent power of acquisition . The Sweeping Clause helps to effectuate any power of acquisition contained in the Constitution , but it does not itself provide a power of acquisition ...