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Title Foreign in a domestic sense : Puerto Rico, American expansion, and the Constitution / edited by Christina Duffy Burnett and Burke Marshall
Published Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2001
©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 422 pages)
Series American encounters/global interactions
American encounters/global interactions.
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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SUBJECT Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld gnd
Subject Constitutional law -- United States -- Territories and possessions
Constitutional law -- Puerto Rico
LAW -- Constitutional.
LAW -- Public.
Constitutional law
Politics and government
Droit constitutionnel -- États-Unis -- Territoires et possessions.
Droit constitutionnel -- Porto Rico.
SUBJECT United States -- Territories and possessions -- Politics and government
Puerto Rico -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85108956
Subject Puerto Rico
Costa Rica
USA
États-Unis -- Territoires et possessions -- Histoire.
Porto Rico -- Politique et gouvernement.
Form Electronic book
Author Burnett, Christina Duffy, 1969- editor.
Marshall, Burke, 1922-2003, editor.
LC no. 00047644
ISBN 9780822381167
0822381168
1283062100
9781283062107
9786613062109
6613062103