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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... statute . Jefferson , by contrast , viewed the treaty power as an implementational power that permits the President and Senate to carry into effect national powers in the international arena but does not give the national government ...
... statutes a precondition to any federal spending , so that presidents and judges cannot spend on their own authority ... statute ? Indeed , founding - era sources contain a number of explicit references to " disposal " of money , such as ...
... statutes . The certain source of appropriations authority is the clause at the end of Article I , section 8 that grants to Congress ancillary powers to effectuate the national government's other granted powers : " The Congress shall ...
... statutes or state constitutions . Under standard conflict - of - laws doctrine , they are also held to take precedence over prior inconsistent federal statutes , though that conclusion is subject to serious question as a matter of ...
... statute , restricting speech or religion in domestic territory . There is accordingly nothing for the First Amendment to clarify with respect to presi- dential power , because there is no perceptible danger . 85 Courts , of course , can ...