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

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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Autor principal: Neuman, Gerald L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2001.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a Cover; STRANGERS TO THE CONSTITUTION; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER ONE: Whose Constitution?; The Scope of the Constitution; The Social Contract Background; The Immigration Anomaly; PART ONE: THE PAST; CHAPTER TWO: The Open Borders Myth and the Lost Century of American Immigration Law; Crime; Poverty and Disability; Contagious Disease; Race and Slavery; Ideological Restriction and Alien Registration; A Comment on Effectiveness; CHAPTER THREE: Constitutional Limits on Immigration Regulation in the First Century: Federalism Objections; Exclusive Federal Power. 
505 0 |a Immigration under TreatiesCHAPTER FOUR: The Rights of Alien Friends within the United States; The Alien Act Debates; The Dominance of the Mutuality of Obligation Approach; The Extension of Political Rights to Alien Residents; CHAPTER FIVE: The Geographical Scope of the Constitution; The Constitution and the Territories in the Era of Continental Expansion; We the People, Incorporated; Modernism and Extraterritoriality; PART TWO: THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE; CHAPTER SIX: Rights beyond Our Borders; Constitutional Geography and the Rights of Citizens; Aliens Abroad after the Fall of Territoriality. 
505 0 |a CHAPTER SEVEN: Crossing the BorderDo Constitutional Rights of Aliens Constrain Immigration Policy?; Are the Constitutional Limits Judicially Enforceable?; CHAPTER EIGHT: Limits of the Polity: Political Rights of Immigrants in the United States; The Constitutional Viability of Alien Suffrage Today; First Amendment Limits on Exclusion and Deportation; CHAPTER NINE: Limits of the Nation: Birthright Citizenship and Undocumented Children; The Revisionist Interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment; Amending the Fourteenth Amendment; CHAPTER TEN: Conclusion; NOTES; INDEX. 
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