Gary Lawson and Guy Seidman
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300102314
- eISBN:
- 9780300128963
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300102314.003.0005
- Subject:
- Law, Constitutional and Administrative Law
This chapter discusses the three ways in which the United States can acquire territories. There are three clauses in the constitution that speak to the matter of territorial governance; two of those ...
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This chapter discusses the three ways in which the United States can acquire territories. There are three clauses in the constitution that speak to the matter of territorial governance; two of those grant powers to the Congress and one grants powers to the President. Each clause has its own realm of application: the District Clause applies to the nation's capital and federal enclaves, within the states; the Territories Clause applies to federal territories acquired by the United States; and the Article II Vesting Clause applies to the territories under American military occupation, which has not been formally acquired.Less
This chapter discusses the three ways in which the United States can acquire territories. There are three clauses in the constitution that speak to the matter of territorial governance; two of those grant powers to the Congress and one grants powers to the President. Each clause has its own realm of application: the District Clause applies to the nation's capital and federal enclaves, within the states; the Territories Clause applies to federal territories acquired by the United States; and the Article II Vesting Clause applies to the territories under American military occupation, which has not been formally acquired.
Gary Lawson and Guy Seidman
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300102314
- eISBN:
- 9780300128963
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300102314.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Constitutional and Administrative Law
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 ...
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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 federal treaty power and assess American territorial acquisitions from this perspective. The authors find that at least one American acquisition of territory and many of the basic institutions of territorial governance have no constitutional foundation, and explore the often strange paths which constitutional law has traveled to permit such deviations from the Constitution's original meaning.Less
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 federal treaty power and assess American territorial acquisitions from this perspective. The authors find that at least one American acquisition of territory and many of the basic institutions of territorial governance have no constitutional foundation, and explore the often strange paths which constitutional law has traveled to permit such deviations from the Constitution's original meaning.
Rob Atkinson
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861348951
- eISBN:
- 9781447302100
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861348951.003.0004
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This chapter focuses on the situation in England and seeks to outline some of the attempts to build links between the city-region and the neighbourhood that are currently under development, bearing ...
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This chapter focuses on the situation in England and seeks to outline some of the attempts to build links between the city-region and the neighbourhood that are currently under development, bearing in mind that these are ongoing and lack a clear sense of what it is they are seeking to achieve. It notes that under the growing pressure of globalisation and the apparent decline of the nation state, the city-region (or metropolitan region) has increasingly been defined as the natural focus for economic development policies while the neighbourhood has become a key arena for a range of more ‘socially oriented’ policies associated with disadvantaged areas related to urban regeneration, service delivery, and policing. It emphasises that both are forms of territorial governance under construction emerging in an already complex governance environment.Less
This chapter focuses on the situation in England and seeks to outline some of the attempts to build links between the city-region and the neighbourhood that are currently under development, bearing in mind that these are ongoing and lack a clear sense of what it is they are seeking to achieve. It notes that under the growing pressure of globalisation and the apparent decline of the nation state, the city-region (or metropolitan region) has increasingly been defined as the natural focus for economic development policies while the neighbourhood has become a key arena for a range of more ‘socially oriented’ policies associated with disadvantaged areas related to urban regeneration, service delivery, and policing. It emphasises that both are forms of territorial governance under construction emerging in an already complex governance environment.
