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

A study of American imperialism, which addresses the problem of the US territories. Focusing on Puerto Rico, it sheds light on the US' unfinished colonial experiment and its legacy of racially rooted imperialism, while insisting on the centrality of these 'marginal' regions in any serious treatment of American constitutional history.
Print Book, English, 2001
Duke University Press, Durham, 2001
Aufsatzsammlung
xv, 422 pages ; 25 cm
9780822326892, 9780822326984, 0822326892, 0822326981
45015348
Preface Between the Foreign and the Domestic: The Doctrine of Territorial Incorporation, Invented and Reinvented / Christina Duffy Burnett and Burke Marshall 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 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 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. Torreulla A Tale of Distorting Mirrors: One Hundred Years of Puerto Rico’s Sovereignty Imbroglio / Roberto Aponte Toro 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 Notes on Contributors Index
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