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Book Review


The Insular Cases and the Emergence of American Empire. By Bartholomew H. Sparrow. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. xii, 300 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-1481-8. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-7006-1482-6.)
Bartholomew H. Sparrow's survey and reinterpretation of the so-called Insular Cases is a scholarly feat. Not only does he make the complex legal argument crystal clear but he also delves deeply into the political and cultural factors underlying each opinion. Furthermore, the scope of his study goes beyond the traditional presentation of the Supreme Court's original decisions by examining thirty-five decisions made between January 1901 and April 1922. . . .
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