Strangers to the Constitution : Immigrants, Borders, and Fundamental Law /

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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 f...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Neuman, Gerald L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2010]
Edición:Course Book
Temas:
LAW / Constitutional.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Chapter One. WHOSE CONSTITUTION?
  • PART ONE: THE PAST
  • Chapter Two. THE OPEN BORDERS MYTH AND THE LOST CENTURY OF AMERICAN IMMIGRATION LAW
  • Chapter Three. CONSTITUTIONAL LIMITS ON IMMIGRATION REGULATION IN THE FIRST CENTURY: FEDERALISM OBJECTIONS
  • Chapter Four. THE RIGHTS OF ALIEN FRIENDS WITHIN THE UNITED STATES
  • Chapter Five. THE GEOGRAPHICAL SCOPE OF THE CONSTITUTION
  • PART TWO: THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE
  • Chapter Six. RIGHTS BEYOND OUR BORDERS
  • Chapter Seven. CROSSING THE BORDER
  • Chapter Eight. LIMITS OF THE POLITY: POLITICAL RIGHTS OF IMMIGRANTS IN THE UNITED STATES
  • Chapter Nine. LIMITS OF THE NATION: BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP AND UNDOCUMENTED CHILDREN
  • Chapter Ten. CONCLUSION
  • NOTES
  • INDEX

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