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Foreign in a domestic sense : Puerto Rico, American expansion, and the Constitution /

A number of leading legal scholars address different aspects of the American experience of territorial government in areas unincorporated for reasons of geography and the cultural and racial makeup of their peoples with special emphasis on the status of P.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Burnett, Christina Duffy, 1969- (Editor ), Marshall, Burke, 1922-2003 (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2001.
Colección:American encounters/global interactions.
E-Duke books scholarly collection.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Between the foreign and the domestic : the doctrine of territorial incorporation, invented and reinvented / Christina Duffy Burnett and Burke Marshall
  • Part I. History and expansion
  • Some common ground / José A. Cabranes
  • Teutonic constitutionalism : the role of ethno-juridical discourse in the Spanish-American War / Mark S. Weiner
  • A Constitution led by the flag : the Insular Cases and the metaphor of incorporation / Brook Thomas
  • Deconstructing colonialism : the "unincorporated territory" as a category of domination / Efrén Rivera Ramos
  • Part II. Expansion and Constitution
  • Installing the Insular Cases into the canon of Constitutional law / Sanford Levinson
  • Fulfilling manifest destiny : conquest, race, and the Insular Cases / Juan F. Perea
  • U.S. territorial expansion : extended republicanism versus hyperextended expansionism / E. Robert Statham, Jr.
  • Constitutionalism and individual rights in the territories / Gerald L. Neuman
  • Part III. Constitution and membership
  • Partial membership and Liberal political theory / Mark Tushnet
  • Injustice according to law : the Insular Cases and other oddities / José Trías Monge
  • One hundred years of solitude : Puerto Rico's American century / Juan R. Torruella
  • A tale of distoring mirrors : one hundred years of Puerto Rico's sovereignty imbroglio / Roberto P. Aponte Toro
  • Part IV. Membership and recognition
  • Law, language and statehood : the role of English in the great state of Puerto Rico / José Julián Alvarez González
  • Puerto Rican national identity and United States pluralism / Angel Ricardo Oquendo
  • Puerto Rican separatism and United States federalism / Richard Thornburgh
  • The bitter roots of Puerto Rican citizenship / Rogers M. Smith
  • A note on the Insular Cases / Christina Duffy Burnett.