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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... spending to enumerated powers turns out , as we shall see shortly , to be an essentially correct account of federal spending authority , but that spending authority stems from a source other than the General Welfare Clause ...
... Spending Clause authorizes the federal government to spend funds to acquire property . What could possibly be simpler ? But although the Spending Clause is well enough known today to be the subject of Supreme Court opin- ions and ...
... spending of funds . The Appropriations Clause states : " No money shall be drawn from the Treasury , but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law ; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public ...
... spending power that would come from the Property Clause fits well with the language of the Taxing Clause , which permits taxation “ to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States . " And ...
... spending , a fully informed audience would probably take the leap . It is more likely that the Constitution contains an ill - suited , inconspicuous appro- priations authorization than none at all . But the Constitution contains an ...