Republic or empire with glimpses of "criminal aggression"
By: by Edwin Burritt Smith ; an address delivered at the Philadelphia conference, February 23, 1900
Series: Liberty tracts -- no. 9; Liberty tracts -- no. 9.
Publisher: American Anti-imperialist League
Published: 1900
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 28
Subjects: Colonial question; Territorial expansion
Notes: Cover title.

On cover: The people of the United States are sovereign; their government is but an agent exercising conferred and limited powers. The Constitution does not bind them; it was created by them to limit and control their government. The heresy that mere creatures of the Constitution may acquire "colonial possessions" and "subjects," to be by them despotically ruled outside the Constitution, must be stamped out. Its undisguised basis is inequality among men. Shall we, by evasion, construction, or amendment, now embody this principle in our fundamental law?