Limits

This chapter examines the constitutionality of these acquisitions by the United States to create a seemingly overseas empire. In 1854, the United States completed its acquisition of the American mainland by conquering California and the rest of the American Southwest from Mexico, but in the latter part of the nineteenth century, it expanded south to the Caribbean, north to Alaska, and west all the way to the Philippines, thereby significantly extending its borders. The chapter argues that these territories were acquired by virtue of treaty and annexation.

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