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Author : Howard Leslie Smith
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Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Some Constitutional Aspects of Territorial Expansion written by Howard Leslie Smith and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Howard Leslie Smith
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ISBN 13 : 9781330644447
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (444 download)
Download or read book Some Constitutional Aspects of Territorial Expansion (Classic Reprint) written by Howard Leslie Smith and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Some Constitutional Aspects of Territorial Expansion This is a proposition of vast importance to the people of the United States and absolutely novel. The problem does not present itself in this light, perhaps, to a majority of those who advocate annexation; but it is because they belong to that optimistic class, governed by sentiment rather than reason, who refuse to burden their minds with investigations of fact, but who trust that somehow and in some way, in the Lord's good time, everything will, by virtue of the good luck which has heretofore attended the American Nation in its various experiments, eventually turn out all right. These men read that the Philippine Islands are eight thousand miles from our shores; but they do not stop to reflect that this means that they are more distant from us than any portion of the Continent of Europe; that they are as far from us as Persia and Arabia and the sources of the Nile; that Manila is as distant from San Francisco as Mecca and Khartoum are from New York, and that their capital city of 250,000 inhabitants contained four American residents during 1896-7. They do not consider that these islands lie wholly within the tropics, reaching to within less than five degrees of the equator, and that, in climate and general characteristics, they are all that is implied by the term tropical and equatorial. And I say this without any disposition to speak disrespectfully of the equator. They lie within a zone in which no white race, let alone Anglo-Saxon race, has ever been able to establish itself successfully in the history of the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Gary Lawson
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300128967
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Constitution of Empire written by Gary Lawson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Howard Leslie Smith
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Some constitutional aspects of territorial expansion, by Howard Leslie Smith. A paper read before the Law Club, Chicago, November 26, 1898 written by Howard Leslie Smith and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Raymond A. Leydig
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (561 download)
Download or read book The Constitutional Basis for American Territorial Expansion written by Raymond A. Leydig and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick J. Turner
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781530834716
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (347 download)
Download or read book The United States Territorial Expansion and the Growth of the Constitution written by Frederick J. Turner and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Territorial expansion was the foundation of American power and greatness. From the beginning of history to the present time, no country ever exerted a controlling power over the world until it had acquired a wide extent of territory." - William R. Garrett.
Author : Thomas B. Marston
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267988686
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (886 download)
Download or read book Territorial Expansion and the Federal Constitution (Classic Reprint) written by Thomas B. Marston and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Territorial Expansion and the Federal Constitution I. Of the power of the United States to acquire territory under the Constitution, there can now be no doubt. The power of any sovereignty to acquire territory pertains to, and is an incident of, the power to declare war and make treaties. As a legitimate means pf prosecuting war, the property and territory of a belligerent may be seized and confiscated at the will of the captor; and when war exists, the government possesses all the extreme powers which any sovereignty can wield, and among these is the power to acquire territory either by conquest or treaty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Christina Duffy Burnett
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822381168
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Foreign in a Domestic Sense written by Christina Duffy Burnett and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-20 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking study of American imperialism, leading legal scholars address the problem of the U.S. territories. Foreign in a Domestic Sense will redefine the boundaries of constitutional scholarship. More than four million U.S. citizens currently live in five “unincorporated” U.S. territories. The inhabitants of these vestiges of an American empire are denied full representation in Congress and cannot vote in presidential elections. Focusing on Puerto Rico, the largest and most populous of the territories, Foreign in a Domestic Sense sheds much-needed light on the United States’ unfinished colonial experiment and its legacy of racially rooted imperialism, while insisting on the centrality of these “marginal” regions in any serious treatment of American constitutional history. For one hundred years, Puerto Ricans have struggled to define their place in a nation that neither wants them nor wants to let them go. They are caught in a debate too politicized to yield meaningful answers. Meanwhile, doubts concerning the constitutionality of keeping colonies have languished on the margins of mainstream scholarship, overlooked by scholars outside the island and ignored by the nation at large. This book does more than simply fill a glaring omission in the study of race, cultural identity, and the Constitution; it also makes a crucial contribution to the study of American federalism, serves as a foundation for substantive debate on Puerto Rico’s status, and meets an urgent need for dialogue on territorial status between the mainlandd and the territories. Contributors. José Julián Álvarez González, Roberto Aponte Toro, Christina Duffy Burnett, José A. Cabranes, Sanford Levinson, Burke Marshall, Gerald L. Neuman, Angel R. Oquendo, Juan Perea, Efrén Rivera Ramos, Rogers M. Smith, E. Robert Statham Jr., Brook Thomas, Richard Thornburgh, Juan R. Torruella, José Trías Monge, Mark Tushnet, Mark Weiner
Author : Thomas B Marston
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781359659200
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (592 download)
Download or read book Territorial Expansion and the Federal Constitution written by Thomas B Marston and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Paul Frymer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691191565
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Building an American Empire written by Paul Frymer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How American westward expansion was governmentally engineered to promote the formation of a white settler nation Westward expansion of the United States is most conventionally remembered for rugged individualism, geographic isolationism, and a fair amount of luck. Yet the establishment of the forty-eight contiguous states was hardly a foregone conclusion, and the federal government played a critical role in its success. This book examines the politics of American expansion, showing how the government's regulation of population movements on the frontier, both settlement and removal, advanced national aspirations for empire and promoted the formation of a white settler nation. Building an American Empire details how a government that struggled to exercise plenary power used federal land policy to assert authority over the direction of expansion by engineering the pace and patterns of settlement and to control the movement of populations. At times, the government mobilized populations for compact settlement in strategically important areas of the frontier; at other times, policies were designed to actively restrain settler populations in order to prevent violence, international conflict, and breakaway states. Paul Frymer examines how these settlement patterns helped construct a dominant racial vision for America by incentivizing and directing the movement of white European settlers onto indigenous and diversely populated lands. These efforts were hardly seamless, and Frymer pays close attention to the failures as well, from the lack of further expansion into Latin America to the defeat of the black colonization movement. Building an American Empire reveals the lasting and profound significance government settlement policies had for the nation, both for establishing America as dominantly white and for restricting broader aspirations for empire in lands that could not be so racially engineered.
Author : Thomas B. Marston
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Territorial expansion and the federal Constitution, by Thomas B. Marston. A paper read before the Law Club, Chicago, October 29, 1898 written by Thomas B. Marston and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Immerwahr
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374715122
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book How to Hide an Empire written by Daniel Immerwahr and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of the ten best books of the year by the Chicago Tribune A Publishers Weekly best book of 2019 | A 2019 NPR Staff Pick A pathbreaking history of the United States’ overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an “empire,” exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories—the islands, atolls, and archipelagos—this country has governed and inhabited? In How to Hide an Empire, Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. In crackling, fast-paced prose, he reveals forgotten episodes that cast American history in a new light. We travel to the Guano Islands, where prospectors collected one of the nineteenth century’s most valuable commodities, and the Philippines, site of the most destructive event on U.S. soil. In Puerto Rico, Immerwahr shows how U.S. doctors conducted grisly experiments they would never have conducted on the mainland and charts the emergence of independence fighters who would shoot up the U.S. Congress. In the years after World War II, Immerwahr notes, the United States moved away from colonialism. Instead, it put innovations in electronics, transportation, and culture to use, devising a new sort of influence that did not require the control of colonies. Rich with absorbing vignettes, full of surprises, and driven by an original conception of what empire and globalization mean today, How to Hide an Empire is a major and compulsively readable work of history.
Author : Adam Burns
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474402151
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book American Imperialism written by Adam Burns and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a critical re-evaluation of US territorial expansionism and imperialism from 1783 to the presentThe United States has been described by many of its foreign and domestic critics as an aempirea Providing a wide-ranging analysis of the United States as a territorial, imperial power from its foundation to the present day, this book explores the United States acquisition or long-term occupation of territories through a chronological perspective. It begins by exploring early continental expansion, such as the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from Napoleon Bonaparte in 1803, and traces US imperialism through to the controversial ongoing presence of US forces at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. The book provides fresh insights into the history of US territorial expansion and imperialism, bringing together more well-known instances (such as the purchase of Alaska) with those less-frequently discussed (such as the acquisition of the Guano Islands after 1856). The volume considers key historical debates, controversies and turning points, providing a historiographically-grounded re-evaluation of US expansion from 1783 to the present day.Key FeaturesProvides case studies of different examples of US territorial expansion/imperialism, and adds much-needed context to ongoing debates over US imperialism for students of both History and PoliticsAnalyses many of the better known instances of US imperialism (for example, Cuba and the Philippines), while also considering often-overlooked examples such as the US Virgin Islands, American Samoa and GuamExplores American imperialism from a aterritorial acquisition/long-term occupationa viewpoint which differentiates it from many other books that instead focus on informal and economic imperialismDiscusses the presence of the US in key places such as Guantanamo Bay, the Panama Canal Zone and the Arctic
Author : Sean Wilentz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393329216
Total Pages : 1114 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (292 download)
Download or read book Rise of American Democracy written by Sean Wilentz and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2006-08-29 with total page 1114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A political history of how the fledgling American republic developed into a democratic state offers insight into how historical beliefs about democracy compromised democratic progress and identifies the roles of key contributors.
Author : Sanford Levinson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1461644682
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)
Download or read book The Louisiana Purchase and American Expansion, 1803–1898 written by Sanford Levinson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-06-14 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1803 purchase of the Louisiana Territory was a watershed event for the fledgling United States. Adding some 829,000 square miles of territory, the Louisiana Purchase set a striking precedent of Presidential power and brought to the surface profound legal and constitutional questions. As the nation continued to expand westward and into the Pacific and Caribbean, critical social, political and constitutional questions arose that greatly tested American resolve and reshaped the nation's founding premises. In this exciting collection, Sanford Levinson and Bartholomew Sparrow bring together noted scholars in American history, constitutional law, and political science to examine role that the Louisiana Purchase played in shaping both the expansionist policies of the nineteenth century and critical interpretations of the Constitution. The Louisiana Purchase and American Expansion, 1803–1898 provides a fascinating overview of how the U.S. Constitution and the American political system is inextricably tied to
Author : Gregory Ablavsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190905697
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Federal Ground written by Gregory Ablavsky and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Federal Ground depicts the haphazard and unplanned growth of federal authority in the Northwest and Southwest Territories, the first U.S. territories established under the new territorial system. The nation's foundational documents, particularly the Constitution and the Northwest Ordinance, placed these territories under sole federal jurisdiction and established federal officials to govern them. But, for all their paper authority, these officials rarely controlled events or dictated outcomes. In practice, power in these contested borderlands rested with the regions' pre-existing inhabitants-diverse Native peoples, French villagers, and Anglo-American settlers. These residents nonetheless turned to the new federal government to claim ownership, jurisdiction, protection, and federal money, seeking to obtain rights under federal law. Two areas of governance proved particularly central: contests over property, where plural sources of title created conflicting land claims, and struggles over the right to use violence, in which customary borderlands practice intersected with the federal government's effort to establish a monopoly on force. Over time, as federal officials improvised ad hoc, largely extrajudicial methods to arbitrate residents' claims, they slowly insinuated federal authority deeper into territorial life. This authority survived even after the former territories became Tennessee and Ohio: although these new states spoke a language of equal footing and autonomy, statehood actually offered former territorial citizens the most effective way yet to make claims on the federal government. The federal government, in short, still could not always prescribe the result in the territories, but it set the terms and language of debate-authority that became the foundation for later, more familiar and bureaucratic incarnations of federal power.
Author : Carman Fitz Randolph
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Notes on the Law of Territorial Expansion, with Especial Reference to the Philippines written by Carman Fitz Randolph and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
