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Informationen zum Autor Leia Castañeda Anastacio is an independent scholar affiliate of Harvard Law School's East Asian Legal Studies program. Placing first in the 1993 Philippine Bar Examinations, she was awarded Harvard Law School's Yong Kim '95 Memorial Prize in 2008 and the American Society of Legal History's William Nelson Cromwell Foundation Dissertation Prize in 2010. Klappentext This book examines how the colonial Philippine constitution weakened the safeguards that shielded liberty from power and unleashed a constitutional despotism. Zusammenfassung Examining American colonial constitutionalism! this book yields insights for legal historians! comparativists! post-colonial scholars! and Southeast Asia specialists. Its focus on the use of American political models in Philippine colonial state-building and development will resonate with law and development scholars and political scientists specializing in American political development. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Republican means, imperial ends: American empire and the rule of law; 2. American theory, Spanish structure, and Ilustrado capacity: inventing the Filipino people, constructing the American colonial state; 3. Foreign in a domestic sense: organic sovereignty, unincorporated territories, and the insular doctrine; 4. Sovereign but not popular: Colonial Leviathan, inherent power, and plenary authority; 5. Progressive interventions, parchment barriers: civilizing mission, colonial development, and constitutional limitations; 6. Popular but not sovereign: colonial democracy and the rise of the Philippine Assembly; 7. American vessels, Filipino spirit: Filipinizing the government of the Philippine Islands; 8. Filipinizing the public: the business of government and the government in business; 9. Progressivism, populism, and the public interest: restoring Taft era and the Cabinet Crisis of 1923; 10. Colonial conflict, constitutional categories: constitutional Imperialism and the Board of Control Cases; 11. From 'is' to 'ought': constitutionalizing colonial legacies; Conclusion....
