Author: Carman Fitz RandolphPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Constitutional Aspects of Annexation
Author: Carman Fitz RandolphPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Constitutional Aspects of Annexation
Author: Carman Fitz RandolphPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
The Constitution of Empire
Author: Gary LawsonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300128967
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
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. 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.
The Island of Palmas Arbitration
Author: United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Las Palmas (Canary Islands)
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Almost Citizens
Author: Sam ErmanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108415490
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Tells the tragic story of Puerto Ricans who sought the post-Civil War regime of citizenship, rights, and statehood but instead received racist imperial governance.
International Law in Domestic Courts
Author: André NollkaemperPublisher:
ISBN: 0198739745
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 769
Book Description
The Oxford ILDC online database, an online collection of domestic court decisions which apply international law, has been providing scholars with insights for many years. This ILDC Casebook is the perfect companion, introducing key court decisions with brief introductory and connecting texts. An ideal text for practitioners, judged, government officials, as well as for students on international law courses, the ILDC Casebook explains the theories and doctrines underlying the use by domestic courts of international law, and illustrates the key importance of domestic courts in the development of international law.
CONSTITUTIONAL ASPECTS OF THE EXTRA-CONTINENTAL JURISDICTION OF THE UNITED STATES.
Author: HAROLD JAMES LEUPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jurisdiction
Languages : en
Pages : 950
Book Description
The Constitutional Bind
Author: Aziz RanaPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022635086X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
An eye-opening account of how Americans came to revere the Constitution and what this reverence has meant domestically and around the world. Some Americans today worry that the Federal Constitution is ill-equipped to respond to mounting democratic threats and may even exacerbate the worst features of American politics. Yet for as long as anyone can remember, the Constitution has occupied a quasi-mythical status in American political culture, which ties ideals of liberty and equality to assumptions about the inherent goodness of the text’s design. The Constitutional Bind explores how a flawed document came to be so glorified and how this has impacted American life. In a pathbreaking retelling of the American experience, Aziz Rana shows that today’s reverential constitutional culture is a distinctively twentieth-century phenomenon. Rana connects this widespread idolization to another relatively recent development: the rise of US global dominance. Ultimately, such veneration has had far-reaching consequences: despite offering a unifying language of reform, it has also unleashed an interventionist national security state abroad while undermining the possibility of deeper change at home. Revealing how the current constitutional order was forged over the twentieth century, The Constitutional Bind also sheds light on an array of movement activists—in Black, Indigenous, feminist, labor, and immigrant politics—who struggled to imagine different constitutional horizons. As time passed, these voices of opposition were excised from memory. Today, they offer essential insights.
Strangers to the Constitution
Author: Gerald L. NeumanPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400821959
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Gerald Neuman discusses in historical and contemporary terms the repeated efforts of U.S. insiders to claim the Constitution as their exclusive property and to deny constitutional rights to aliens and immigrants--and even citizens if they are outside the nation's borders. Tracing such efforts from the debates over the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798 to present-day controversies about illegal aliens and their children, the author argues that no human being subject to the governance of the United States should be a "stranger to the Constitution." Thus, whenever the government asserts its power to impose obligations on individuals, it brings them within the constitutional system and should afford them constitutional rights. In Neuman's view, this mutuality of obligation is the most persuasive approach to extending constitutional rights extraterritorially to all U.S. citizens and to those aliens on whom the United States seeks to impose legal responsibilities. Examining both mutuality and more flexible theories, Neuman defends some constitutional constraints on immigration and deportation policies and argues that the political rights of aliens need not exclude suffrage. Finally, in regard to whether children born in the United States to illegally present alien parents should be U.S. citizens, he concludes that the Constitution's traditional shield against the emergence of a hereditary caste of "illegals" should be vigilantly preserved.
Slavery and the Annexation of Texas
Author: Frederick MerkPublisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
In this book, the eminent Harvard historian Frederick Merk focuses on the intricate maneuverings of President Tyler and his colleagues to reverse the policies of three previous Administrations and, without reference to public opinion, move toward the annexation of Texas.
