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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... Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States . " Many other clauses , of course , can plausibly be construed to affect territorial matters in some fashion , but the list of provisions ...
Territorial Expansion and American Legal History Gary Lawson, Guy Seidman. over mother country rules subservient colonies—an arrangement with which the ... rules and mecha- nisms for the acquisition of new territory . Chapter 1 4 ...
... rules that Congress might not otherwise have been able to enact . ” 9 This view has prevailed as a matter of constitutional law at least since 1920 , when the Supreme Court held in Missouri v Holland10 that the President and Senate ...
... self-described constitutional originalists, however, combine their tem- poral leanings with rules of interpretative relevance that give primacy to some set of historically concrete mental states . The great divide Introduction 7.
... Rule " " 13 that need not be expressly specified in the communicative instrument . If an instruction manual written in 1789 said , “ Keep a screwdriver handy during assembly , " whether the term screwdriver refers to a tool or an ...