Statehood
Subtitle: the territorial imperative : an essay
By: by Bill Howell and Bill Redd
Contributors: Redd, Bill
Publisher: Bookcliff Pub.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Helper, UT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 524
ISBN-13: 9780978575205
Subjects: Federal government; Politics and government; History; Statehood (American politics)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Statehood day; title: 2. A historical retrospective : the origins of independence; title: 3. "In trust" : the origin and purpose of territories of the United States; title: 4. Federal territorial acts; title: 5. State enabling act compacts : prescriptions for statehood; title: 6. What is a state under the United States constitution?; title: 7. Equal footing among the states; title: 8. Temporary and partial restraint on statehood; title: 9. Consolidating governmental power : revoking statehood; title: 10. Breach of trust; title: 11. "Expansive reading" of the constitutional property clause; title: 12. "Whole cloth" reading the constitution; title: 13. Extension of the Kleppe decision to its logical end : the property clause as a source of unlimited power; title: 14. Further consequences of the property clause as a source of unlimited power; title: 15. Precedential underpinning for Kleppe v. New Mexico; title: 16. Evolution of judicial precedent; title: 17. The source of federal authority to govern territory; title: 18. Origin of the constitutional property clause; title: 19. A particularized analysis of the property and claims clauses; title: 20. History revisited; title: 21. Restoring the "empire of liberty."