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Colonial Constitutionalism
The Tyranny of United States' Offshore Territorial Policy and Relations
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2001
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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.
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Copyright year
2001
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-0303-6
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-5319-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
159
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Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Chapter 1 Introduction: Confronting the Tyranny of U.S. Territorial Extra-Constitutionalism: The Hyperextension of the Extended American Republic No access Pages 1 - 24
Chapter 2 The U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico: Pragmatismand the Empty Promise of Confederal Autonomy in the American Federal Republic No access Pages 25 - 50
Chapter 3 The United States vs. the U.S. Virgin Islands: The Purchase of the Danish West Indies and Their Inhabitants No access Pages 51 - 64
Chapter 4 U.S. Citizenship Policy in the Territory of Guam: The Making of One Out of Many, or Many Out of One? No access Pages 65 - 84
Chapter 5 The Unincorporated, Unorganized U.S. Territory of American Samoa: Samoan Traditionalism "Faa-Samoa" vs. American Constitutionalism No access Pages 85 - 102
Chapter 6 The Confederal/Federal U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands: A Paradox of "Independent" Dependency No access Pages 103 - 120
Chapter 7 The Freely-Associated States of Micronesia: Pragmatism vs. Principle in U.S. Foreign Policy No access Pages 121 - 138
Chapter 8 Conclusion: Self-Determination, Self-Government, and the Definition of Political Status in the U.S. OffshoreTerritories: A Quest for Justice No access Pages 139 - 154
Index No access Pages 155 - 158
About the Author No access Pages 159 - 159
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