Defining Status
Author : Arnold H. Leibowitz
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 23,90 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780792300694
Author : Arnold H. Leibowitz
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 23,90 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780792300694
Author : Arnold H. Leibowitz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 39,38 MB
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9004641394
Author : Arnold H. Leibowitz
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 21,69 MB
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781490371467
The United States today governs eight populated entities--American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands in the Pacific and Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands in the Atlantic--with a total population of 3.68 million people. This is the first book to analyze the legal and political issues with respect to the U.S. territories, Commonwealths and Freely Associated States. Defining Status has been cited as an authoritative reference by the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Congress. The author analyzes the possibility of statehood for Guam ad the Virgin Islands, and explores the bounds of the Commonwealths and Freely Associated States. He discusses these status alternatives against the backdrop of the political, economic, geographic and cultural uniqueness of each territory so that the reader unfamiliar with the particular territory may enter into the status discussion with sufficient knowledge of each territory. Long now out of print, the book is now being made available once more. The book sets out the entire original book, including its lengthy bibliography.
Author : Arnold H. Leibowitz
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 43,45 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781496024770
This monograph updates "Defining Status: A Comprehensive Analysis of the U.S. Territorial Relations", the leading legal and historical treatise on the territories of the United States which was originally published in 1989.
Author : E. Robert Statham
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,68 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739104323
Colonial Constitutionalism exposes one of the great failures of American democracy. It posits that the creation of a U.S. 'empire' over the last century violated the basis of American constitutionalism through its failure to fully admit annexed offshore territories into the Union. The book's focused case studies analyze each of America's quasi-colonies, revealing how the perpetuation of a this 'imperialist' strategy has rendered the inhabitants second class citizens. E. Robert Statham, Jr.'s work emphasizes the pressing need--in the face of increasingly strident calls for sovereign independence from America's offshore territories--for a modern American republic, fundamentally incompatible with imperialism and colonialism, to grant full U.S. statehood to its overseas possessions.
Author : Keith Bea
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 20,22 MB
Release : 2010-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1437934307
Contents: (1) Recent Developments: 111th, 110th, 109th Congress; Non-Congress. Developments; (2) Background: Early Governance of Puerto Rico (PR); Development of the Const. of PR; Fed. Relations Act; Internat. Attention; Supreme Court Decisions; (3) Status Debates and Votes, 1952-1998: 1967 Plebiscite; 1991 Referendum; 1993 Plebiscite; 1998 Action in the 105th Cong.; 1998 Plebiscite; (4) Fed. Activity After 1998; (5) Issues of Debate on Political Status. Appendices: (A) Brief Chronology of Status Events Since 1898; (B) Puerto Rico Status Votes in Plebiscites and Referenda, 1967-1998; (C)Congress. Activity on Puerto Rico¿s Political Status, 1989-1998; (D) Summary of Legislative Debates and Actions. Tables.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 24,59 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN :
Author : Albin Kowalewski
Publisher :
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 48,97 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Asian American legislators
ISBN : 9780160943560
Author : Teemu Ruskola
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 27,30 MB
Release : 2013-06-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 0674075781
Since the Cold War ended, China has become a global symbol of disregard for human rights, while the United States has positioned itself as the world’s chief exporter of the rule of law. How did lawlessness become an axiom about Chineseness rather than a fact needing to be verified empirically, and how did the United States assume the mantle of law’s universal appeal? In a series of wide-ranging inquiries, Teemu Ruskola investigates the history of “legal Orientalism”: a set of globally circulating narratives about what law is and who has it. For example, why is China said not to have a history of corporate law, as a way of explaining its “failure” to develop capitalism on its own? Ruskola shows how a European tradition of philosophical prejudices about Chinese law developed into a distinctively American ideology of empire, influential to this day. The first Sino-U.S. treaty in 1844 authorized the extraterritorial application of American law in a putatively lawless China. A kind of legal imperialism, this practice long predated U.S. territorial colonialism after the Spanish-American War in 1898, and found its fullest expression in an American district court’s jurisdiction over the “District of China.” With urgent contemporary implications, legal Orientalism lives on in the enduring damage wrought on the U.S. Constitution by late nineteenth-century anti-Chinese immigration laws, and in the self-Orientalizing reforms of Chinese law today. In the global politics of trade and human rights, legal Orientalism continues to shape modern subjectivities, institutions, and geopolitics in powerful and unacknowledged ways.
Author : Congress
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 21,18 MB
Release : 2014-04-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780160920288
"A compilation of historical essays and short biographies about 91 Hispanic-Americans who served in Congress from 1822 to 2012"--Provided by publisher