“Colony,”—or “Free State”? “Dependence,”—or “Just Connection”? “Empire,”—or “Union”? / The Question of Terminology
Alpheus Henry Snow
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‘The American System is but the establishment of interstate and international arbitration as the common and usual course of governmental action instead of as a voluntary or spasmodic manifestation of governmental will.’
The US of the 19th century was against empire and colonialism in principle in contrast to the European colonial empires. However, after the acquisition of Puerto Rico and the Philippines from Spain as the result of the Spanish-American War, the question of whether the US became an empire became a formal topic of discussion. In these two essays, Alpheus Henry Snow, one of the foremost American scholars of international law during his time, attempts to answer this question.
Alpheus Henry Snow was an American lawyer and scholar of international law.