Strangers to the Constitution (eBook)

Immigrants, Borders, and Fundamental Law

Gerald L. Neuman (Autor)

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2010
296 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-2195-2 (ISBN)

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Gerald L. Neuman is Professor of Law at Columbia University.

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Gerald Neuman discusses in historical and contemporary terms the repeated efforts of U.S. insiders to claim the Constitution as their exclusive property and to deny constitutional rights to aliens and immigrants--and even citizens if they are outside the nation's borders. Tracing such efforts from the debates over the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798 to present-day controversies about illegal aliens and their children, the author argues that no human being subject to the governance of the United States should be a "e;stranger to the Constitution."e;Thus, whenever the government asserts its power to impose obligations on individuals, it brings them within the constitutional system and should afford them constitutional rights. In Neuman's view, this mutuality of obligation is the most persuasive approach to extending constitutional rights extraterritorially to all U.S. citizens and to those aliens on whom the United States seeks to impose legal responsibilities. Examining both mutuality and more flexible theories, Neuman defends some constitutional constraints on immigration and deportation policies and argues that the political rights of aliens need not exclude suffrage. Finally, in regard to whether children born in the United States to illegally present alien parents should be U.S. citizens, he concludes that the Constitution's traditional shield against the emergence of a hereditary caste of "e;illegals"e; should be vigilantly preserved.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.7.2010
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: abolitionism • Admission (law) • Alien and Sedition Acts • Ambiguity (law) • Amendment • americans • Article Three of the United States Constitution • attempt • Bill of rights • Birthright citizenship in the United States • Brown v. Board of Education • Calvin's Case • Canadian nationality law • chief justice • Chinese Exclusion Act • Citizenship • citizenship clause • Citizenship of the United States • Citizens (Spanish political party) • Civil Rights Act of 1964 • Colonialism • commerce clause • concurrence • Congress of the Confederation • Consideration • Constitution • constitutional amendment • Constitutionalism • Constitutionality • constitutional law • Contract • Crime • Declarant • Deportation • Discretion • Due Process • Due Process Clause • Employment • Equal Protection Clause • Exclusion • Federal government of the United States • First Amendment to the United States Constitution • Fong Yue Ting v. United States • Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution • Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution • Fraud • freedom of speech • Government interest • Ideology • Illegal Immigration • Immigration • Immigration Law • Immigration Policy • Immigration to the United States • Insular Cases • International Law • John C. Calhoun • Jurisdiction • jury trial • Katzenbach v. Morgan • Kleindienst v. Mandel • Law of obligations • Law of the United States • Legislation • Legislative history • Marbury v. Madison • Missouri Compromise • Multiple citizenship • Municipal Law • Nationality • Natural and legal rights • Naturalization • Necessity • Plyler v. Doe • Police power (United States constitutional law) • Political Philosophy • popular sovereignty • Preamble • Precedent • Prigg v. Pennsylvania • Prosecutor • Provision (contracting) • Regulation • Reid v. Covert • repeal • residence • Separation of Powers • Slavery • Social Contract • Sovereignty • State law (United States) • State of nature • Statute • Suffrage • Supremacy Clause • Territories of the United States • Treaty • United States constitution • United States territory • United States v. Verdugo-Urquidez
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-2195-9 / 1400821959
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-2195-2 / 9781400821952