Foreign in a Domestic Sense: Puerto Rico, American Expansion, and the Constitution
In: American encounters/global interactions
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Between the Foreign and the Domestic: The Doctrine of Territorial Incorporation, Invented and Reinvented -- I. HISTORY AND EXPANSION -- Some Common Ground -- Teutonic Constitutionalism: The Role of Ethno-Juridical Discourse in the Spanish-American War -- A Constitution Led by the Flag: The Insular Cases and the Metaphor of Incorporation -- Deconstructing Colonialism: The ''Unincorporated Territory'' as a Category of Domination -- II. EXPANSION AND CONSTITUTION -- Installing the Insular Cases into the Canon of Constitutional Law -- Fulfilling Manifest Destiny: Conquest, Race, and the Insular Cases -- U.S. Territorial Expansion: Extended Republicanism versus Hyperextended Expansionism -- Constitutionalism and Individual Rights in the Territories -- III. CONSTITUTION AND MEMBERSHIP -- Partial Membership and Liberal Political Theory -- Injustice According to Law: The Insular Cases and Other Oddities -- One Hundred Years of Solitude: Puerto Rico's American Century -- A Tale of Distorting Mirrors: One Hundred Years of Puerto Rico's Sovereignty Imbroglio -- IV. MEMBERSHIP AND RECOGNITION -- Law, Language, and Statehood: The Role of English in the Great State of Puerto Rico -- Puerto Rican National Identity and United States Pluralism -- Puerto Rican Separatism and United States Federalism -- The Bitter Roots of Puerto Rican Citizenship -- A Note on the Insular Cases -- Notes on Contributors -- Index