03758nam 2200697 a 450 991081341220332120210527222411.01-281-72929-997866117292950-300-12896-710.12987/9780300128963(CKB)1000000000471820(StDuBDS)BDZ0022171441(SSID)ssj0000129179(PQKBManifestationID)11131820(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000129179(PQKBWorkID)10070679(PQKB)11778311(StDuBDS)EDZ0000158240(DE-B1597)484800(OCoLC)1024031099(DE-B1597)9780300128963(Au-PeEL)EBL3420004(CaPaEBR)ebr10170030(CaONFJC)MIL172929(OCoLC)923589776(MiAaPQ)EBC3420004(EXLCZ)99100000000047182020030731d2004 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrThe constitution of empire[electronic resource] territorial expansion and American legal history /Gary Lawson and Guy SeidmanNew Haven Yale University Pressc20041 online resource (1 online resource (x, 271 p.))Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-300-10231-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-255) and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction --1. Fundamentals: Lessons from Louisiana --2. Forms: Trouble with Texas? --3. Limits: Conquest and Colonialism --4. Constitutional Architecture I: Territorial Legislatures and Executives --5. Constitutional Architecture II: Territorial Courts --6. War and Peace: Military Occupation and Governance --7. Bulwark or Façade? The Rights of Territorial Inhabitants --Conclusion: Imperial Reflections --Notes --IndexThe 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. Noting that most of America's territorial acquisitions-including the Louisiana Purchase, the Alaska Purchase, and the territory acquired after the Mexican-American and Spanish-American Wars-resulted from treaties, the authors elaborate a Jeffersonian-based theory of the federal treaty power and assess American territorial acquisitions from this perspective. They find that at least one American acquisition of territory and many of the basic institutions of territorial governance have no constitutional foundation, and they explore the often-strange paths that constitutional law has traveled to permit such deviations from the Constitution's original meaning.ImperialismHistoryConstitutional historyUnited StatesConstitutional lawUnited StatesUnited StatesTerritorial expansionUnited StatesPolitics and governmentPhilosophyUnited StatesTerritories and possessionsPolitics and governmentImperialismHistory.Constitutional historyConstitutional law342.73/0413Lawson Gary1958-1592956Seidman Guy1592957MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813412203321The constitution of empire3912852UNINA