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Colonial Constitutionalism
The Tyranny of United States' Offshore Territorial Policy and Relations
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Colonial Constitutionalism
The Tyranny of United States' Offshore Territorial Policy and Relations
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 - Introduction: Confronting the Tyranny of U.S. Territorial Extra-Constitutionalism: The Hyperextension of the Extended American Republic
- Chapter 2 - The U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico: Pragmatism and the Empty Promise of Confederal Autonomy in the American Federal Republic
- Chapter 3 - The United States vs. the U.S. Virgin Islands: The Purchase of the Danish West Indies and Their Inhabitants
- Chapter 4 - U.S. Citizenship Policy in the Territory of Guam: The Making of One Out of Many, or Many Out of One?
- Chapter 5 - The Unincorporated, Unorganized U.S. Territory of American Samoa: Samoan Traditionalism “Faa-Samoa” vs . American Constitutionalism
- Chapter 6 - The Confederal/Federal U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands: A Paradox of “Independent” Dependency
- Chapter 7 - The Freely-Associated States of Micronesia: Pragmatism vs. Principle in U.S. Foreign Policy
- Chapter 8 - Conclusion: Self-Determination, Self-Government, and the Definition of Political Status in the U.S. Offshore Territories: A Quest for Justice
- Index
- About the Author