Semblances of Sovereignty: The Constitution, the State, and American CitizenshipHarvard University Press, 1 Jul 2009 - 320 halaman In a set of cases decided at the end of the nineteenth century, the Supreme Court declared that Congress had "plenary power" to regulate immigration, Indian tribes, and newly acquired territories. Not coincidentally, the groups subject to Congress' plenary power were primarily nonwhite and generally perceived as "uncivilized." The Court left Congress free to craft policies of assimilation, exclusion, paternalism, and domination. |
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... citizens. Exactly who We the People are and by what right the United States exerts sovereignty over a beautiful and bountiful land are questions rarely examined. In the pages that follow, I take up some of these generally unex- plored ...
... citizens were not. Today, residents of Puerto Rico and of the District of Columbia are not represented by voting members in Congress, and millions of citizens who have been convicted of felonies are disenfranchised. This book examines ...
... citizen-state20: from a so- ciety whose primary story of belonging shifts from an ethnic and racial account to one based on the legal equality of citizens. By the mid-twen- tieth century, acceptance of cultural pluralism became the norm ...
... citizens ( particularly when those classes are perceived to be defined by race ) . Thus , citizenship functions to undermine some conceptions of tribal sovereignty and to affirm the legitimacy of poli- cies that favor citizens over ...
... citizens overseas. In short, the Court ensured that the ship of state was outfitted with the requisite constitutional authority to assume its role as a world power. The Court's decision in Chae Chan Ping v. United States5 (usually ...
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From the Warren Court to the Rehnquist Court | 39 |
The Case of Puerto Rico | 74 |
5 The Erosion of American Indian Sovereignty | 95 |
6 Indian Tribal Sovereignty beyond Plenary Power | 122 |
7 Plenary Power Immigration Regulation and Decentered Citizenship | 151 |
Toward a New American Narrative | 182 |
Notes | 199 |
Index | 303 |