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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... provisions directly addressed to problems of territorial acquisition and governance is very short . These sparse texts leave open a great many questions . Does the Constitution in fact permit or accommodate territorial expansion ? If so ...
... provisions that authorize territorial governance and begins discussion of the permissible governmental structures that may be es- tablished in the territories . It demonstrates that some familiar institutions of territorial self ...
... provisions make only a highly limited kind of sense . Only as an interconnected whole do these provisions meaningfully constitute a frame of government for a nation of states . " 19 By " documentary character " we mean attention to the ...
... . . . I cannot perceive why , within the fair meaning of this general provision is not included the power of increasing our territory . ” 24 Representative Rodney's comments raise the ancient and long - lived Fundamentals 23.
... provision , invoked by Repre- sentative Rodney , which authorizes Congress to levy uniform taxes to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare . The only power granted by this clause is the power to lay and ...