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Semblances of Sovereignty - The Constitution, the State & American Citizenship
The Constitution, The State, And American Citizenship
- Editore:
Harvard University Press
- EAN:
9780674007451
- ISBN:
067400745X
- Pagine:
- 320
- Formato:
- Hardback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
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Descrizione Semblances of Sovereignty - The Constitution, the State & American Citizenship
In a set of cases decided at the end of the nineteenth century, the Supreme Court declared that Congress had "plenary power" to regulate immigration, Indian tribes, and newly acquired territories. Not coincidentally, the groups subject to Congress' plenary power were primarily nonwhite and generally perceived as "uncivilized." The Court left Congress free to craft policies of assimilation, exclusion, paternalism, and domination.< /p>
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