Federal Ground - Governing Property and Violence in the First U.S. Territories - Bog af Gregory (Associate Professor of Law Ablavsky - Hardback
Federal Ground depicts the haphazard and unplanned growth of federal authority in the Northwest and Southwest Territories, the first U.S. territories established under the new territorial system. The nation''s foundational documents, particularly the Constitution and the Northwest Ordinance, placed these territories under sole federal jurisdiction and established federal officials to govern them. But, for all their paper authority, these officials rarelycontrolled events or dictated outcomes. In..