LEADER 03755nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910813412203321 005 20240418000207.0 010 $a1-281-72929-9 010 $a9786611729295 010 $a0-300-12896-7 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300128963 035 $a(CKB)1000000000471820 035 $a(StDuBDS)BDZ0022171441 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000129179 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11131820 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000129179 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10070679 035 $a(PQKB)11778311 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000158240 035 $a(DE-B1597)484800 035 $a(OCoLC)1024031099 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300128963 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420004 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10170030 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL172929 035 $a(OCoLC)923589776 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420004 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000471820 100 $a20030731d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe constitution of empire $eterritorial expansion and American legal history /$fGary Lawson and Guy Seidman 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource (x, 271 p.)) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-300-10231-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 207-255) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. Fundamentals: Lessons from Louisiana --$t2. Forms: Trouble with Texas? --$t3. Limits: Conquest and Colonialism --$t4. Constitutional Architecture I: Territorial Legislatures and Executives --$t5. Constitutional Architecture II: Territorial Courts --$t6. War and Peace: Military Occupation and Governance --$t7. Bulwark or Façade? The Rights of Territorial Inhabitants --$tConclusion: Imperial Reflections --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aImperialism$xHistory 606 $aConstitutional history$zUnited States 606 $aConstitutional law$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xTerritorial expansion 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$xPhilosophy 607 $aUnited States$xTerritories and possessions$xPolitics and government 615 0$aImperialism$xHistory. 615 0$aConstitutional history 615 0$aConstitutional law 676 $a342.73/0413 700 $aLawson$b Gary$f1958-$01592956 701 $aSeidman$b Guy$01592957 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813412203321 996 $aThe constitution of empire$93912852 997 $aUNINA