Colonial Constitutionalism exposes one of the great failures of American democracy. It posits that the creation of a U.S. empire over the last century violated the basis of American constitutionalism through its failure to fully admit annexed offshore territories into the Union. The books focused case studies analyze each of Americas quasi-colonies, revealing how the perpetuation of a this imperialist strategy has rendered the inhabitants second class citizens. E. Robert Statham, Jr.s work emphasizes the pressing need-in the face of increasingly strident calls for sovereign independence from Americas offshore territories-for a modern American republic, fundamentally incompatible with imperialism and colonialism, to grant full U.S. statehood to its overseas possessions.
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