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One Constitution, Indivisible? The Insular Cases and American Constitutional Interpretation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2017

Gordon Silverstein*
Affiliation:
Yale Law School

Abstract

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Type
Symposium: “Disembodied Shades”: Teaching the Territories of the United States
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 2017 

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