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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... Power . . . to make Treaties , provided two thirds of the Senators pres- ent concur , " we are drawn once again to Thomas Jefferson . Jefferson pro- pounded a theory of the treaty power that was quite different from the con- sensus of ...
... Treaty of San Ildefonso was kept secret , and because French possession of Louisiana was delayed by bickering over ... power to sell Loui- siana and it was unclear whether the United States had the power to buy it . As for the former ...
... power of the United States to acquire Louisiana . That problem raises ... treaty . " 16 But a search for constitutional meaning cannot take even late ... power of acquisi- tion in the war powers ( " by conquest " ) and the treaty power ...
... 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 concerning the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 ...
... power to acquire territory in the Constitution's treaty and war - making powers - as did Chief Justice Marshall twenty - five years later . But Representative Nicholson concluded that these enumerated consti- tutional powers must include a ...