Beschreibung:
This title was first published in 2002. Within The Imperial Republic, James Wilson addresses the enduring relationship that the American constitution has with the concept of empire.? His research from colonial times to the turn of the twentieth century leads him to conclude that imperial ambition has profoundly influenced American constitutional law, theory and politics.
Contents: Introduction; Constructing a model of republican empires; Early constitutional structures; Creating the imperial constitution; The struggle over the form, character, and direction of the new empire; The republican empire of conquest; Chief Justice John Marshall's Hamiltonian empire: turning constitutional conventions into constitutional law; Imperial competition during the ante-bellum era; John C. Calhoun, Dred Scott v. Sandford and the Lincoln-Douglas debates: turning constitutional theories and conventions into constitutional law; The formation of the modern American empire; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.