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