Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study
Jan 2004 · Yale University Press
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The Constitution of Empire offers a constitutional and historical survey of American territorial expansion from the founding era to the present day. The authors describe the Constitution's design for territorial acquisition and governance and examine the ways in which practice over the past two hundred years has diverged from that original vision. Noting that most of America's territorial acquisitions - including the Louisiana Purchase, the Alaska Purchase, and the territory acquired after the Mexican-American and Spanish-American Wars - resulted from treaties, the authors elaborate a Jeffersonian-based theory of the federal treaty power and assess American territorial acquisitions from this perspective. They find that at least one American acquisition of territory and many of the basic institutions of territorial governance have no constitutional foundation, and they explore the often strange paths that constitutional law has travelled to permit such deviations from the Constitution's original meaning.
The Constitution of Empire offers a constitutional and historical survey of American territorial expansion from the founding era to the present day. The authors describe the Constitution's design for territorial acquisition and governance and examine the ways in which practice over the past two h...
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Trey Hope
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December 31, 2025
This book was an amazing read. I've questioned the true purpose of DEI and Affirmative Action as they stand today, not to be contrarian, but to understand if programs like these are detrimental. I think this book did a great job of first explaining how such programs can be problematic in other parts of the world, then demonstrating how the same can be said in the US. My only issue with the book is the verbiage and how it was written—I found it very difficult to follow at times. This is a book I'll have to read one or two more times, but I definitely recommend it.
Gregory Daerr
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July 25, 2020
Um - first - i read the synopsis and now its allowing me to review. So I wont be leaving a review. But asside from a glictch allowing reviews from those just by reading the summary.......the synopsis is for a different book! So - someone needs to curate the book section me thinks...... G
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Andre Pack
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July 31, 2023
This book is absolute gold. Mr. Sowell destroys the main narrative on affirmative action with direct blows with facts. you will enjoy this book.
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Thomas Sowell is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow in Public Policy at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. The author of numerous books, he also writes a nationally syndicated column that appears in more than 150 newspapers and contributes regularly to Forbes magazine. He has taught economics at various colleges and universities, including Cornell, Amherst, and the University of California-Los Angeles.
Thomas Sowell is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow in Public Policy at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. The author of numerous books, he also writes a nationally syndicated column that appears in more than 150 newspapers and contributes regularly to Forbes magazine. He has ta...
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