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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... residents of the District of Columbia and the Com- monwealth of Puerto Rico, and extraterritorial application of U.S. law and the status of international law in U.S. courts. These issues, it should be apparent, have potentially ...
... 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 the relationship of ...
... residents of the new possessions and Indians born in the United States? Did the Constitution “follow the flag”? In both the Indian and the possessions cases, the indigenous peoples were neither aliens nor nonresidents, yet despite their ...
... in the American polity. Congressional power to exclude inassimilable aliens from the territory of the United States appeared self-evident; and for resident aliens , Indians , and other " less civilized " The Sovereignty Cases • 23.
... residents on U.S. soil would be guaranteed basic civil rights . President McKinley's account of his decision in 1898 to maintain dominion over the Philippines provides a candid statement of the American view that prevailed . He reported ...
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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 |