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Needful Rules And Regulations: Originalist Reflections On The Territorial Clause, Anthony M. Ciolli
Needful Rules And Regulations: Originalist Reflections On The Territorial Clause, Anthony M. Ciolli
Vanderbilt Law Review
There are few areas where the current state of the law is as inconsistent, incoherent, and intellectually bankrupt as the law of U.S. territories. The seminal cases in the field are the infamous Insular Cases, where the Supreme Court of the United States held that the “half-civilized,” “savage,” “ignorant and lawless” “alien races” that inhabited the United States’ overseas territories were not entitled to the same constitutional rights and protections afforded to Americans residing in the mainland United States—holdings that were based on the white man’s burden and similar then-prevalent theories of white supremacy.
Despite being firmly entrenched within the …