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Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire (Studies in Legal History) - Softcover

Book 15 of 32: Studies in Legal History

Erman, Sam

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9781108401494: Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire (Studies in Legal History)
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ISBN 10: 110840149X ISBN 13: 9781108401494
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Almost Citizens lays out the tragic story of how the United States denied Puerto Ricans full citizenship following annexation of the island in 1898. As America became an overseas empire, a handful of remarkable Puerto Ricans debated with US legislators, presidents, judges, and others over who was a citizen and what citizenship meant. This struggle caused a fundamental shift in constitution law: away from the post-Civil War regime of citizenship, rights, and statehood, and toward doctrines that accommodated racist imperial governance. Erman's gripping account shows how, in the wake of the Spanish-American War, administrators, lawmakers, and presidents together with judges deployed creativity and ambiguity to transform constitutional meaning for a quarter of a century. The result is a history in which the United States and Latin America, Reconstruction and empire, and law and bureaucracy intertwine.

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About the Author

Sam Erman is Associate Professor at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
110840149X
ISBN 13 
9781108401494
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
291
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