Foreign in a Domestic Sense
Subtitle: Puerto Rico, American Expansion, and the Constitution (American Encounters/Global Interactions)
Contributors: Angel Oquendo (Contributor); Jr. E. Robert Statham (Contributor); Efrén Rivera Ramos (Contributor); Gerald L. Neuman (Contributor); José A. Cabranes (Contributor); José Julián Alvarez González (Contributor); José Trias Monge (Contributor); Juan Torruella (Contributor); Mark S. Weiner (Contributor); Richard Thornburgh (Contributor); Roberto Aponte Toro (Contributor); Rogers Smith (Contributor); Christina Duffy Burnett (Editor); Burke Marshall (Editor); Christina Duffy Burnett (Editor)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: May 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780822326892
Subjects: American studies; Constitutional & administrative law; International relations; Territories and possessions; Latin America - General; Imperialism; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Pureto Rico; Law; Puerto Rico; USA; Constitutional; International Relations - General; Caribbean Studies; Legal Studies; Constitutional Law; United States; Constitutions; Politics and government
First sentence: It is now a century since the war that brought Puerto Rico under the American flag-the war that John Hay described (in a famous letter to his friend and political ally Theodore Roosevelt) as "the splendid little war; begun with the highest motives, carried on with magnificent intelligence and spirit, favored by that fortune which loves the brave."