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This book 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, they elaborate a Jeffersonian-based theory of the fe ... More
Keywords: territorial expansion, founding era, Constitution, territorial acquisition, territorial governance, Louisiana Purchase, Alaska Purchase, treaties, federal treaty power, constitutional law
Print publication date: 2004 | Print ISBN-13: 9780300102314 |
Published to Yale Scholarship Online: October 2013 | DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300102314.001.0001 |
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