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Foreign in a Domestic Sense: Puerto Rico, American Expansion, and the Constitution

Foreign in a Domestic Sense: Puerto Rico, American Expansion, and the Constitution

Burnett, Christina Duffy
Marshall, Burke

Paperback

Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions

General Latin American HistoryGeneral LawInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0822326981
ISBN13: 9780822326984
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jul 20 2001
Pages: 440
Weight: 1.34
Height: 1.03 Width: 6.16 Depth: 9.28
Language: English
In this groundbreaking study of American imperialism, leading legal scholars address the problem of the U.S. territories. Foreign in a Domestic Sense will redefine the boundaries of constitutional scholarship.

More than four million U.S. citizens currently live in five unincorporated U.S. territories. The inhabitants of these vestiges of an American empire are denied full representation in Congress and cannot vote in presidential elections. Focusing on Puerto Rico, the largest and most populous of the territories, Foreign in a Domestic Sense sheds much-needed light on the United States' unfinished colonial experiment and its legacy of racially rooted imperialism, while insisting on the centrality of these marginal regions in any serious treatment of American constitutional history. For one hundred years, Puerto Ricans have struggled to define their place in a nation that neither wants them nor wants to let them go. They are caught in a debate too politicized to yield meaningful answers. Meanwhile, doubts concerning the constitutionality of keeping colonies have languished on the margins of mainstream scholarship, overlooked by scholars outside the island and ignored by the nation at large.

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