00000nam a22000008i 4500 UP-1685954869149605414 Buklod 20241127174824.0 m |o d | cr ||||||||||| 241104s2021 nyu u eng 9780190905705 (eBook) 9780190905699 (eBook) 9780190905712 (eBook) 9780190905729 (eBook) 21597954 DLC DLAW rda eng 346.7304/4 23 KF 5605 A73 2021eb Ablavsky, Gregory author. Federal ground governing property and violence in the first U.S. territories Gregory Ablavsky. Electronic resource. 101 New York Oxford University Press [2021] 25 cm. 1 online resource (50 pages) text txt rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource nc rdacarrier Oxford legal history series Includes index. Sources of title in the territories -- The land company experiment -- The rise of federal title -- Federal sovereignty -- Laws of war and peace -- Expenses of sovereignty -- Equal footing -- Three systems. 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 rarely controlled events or dictated outcomes. In practice, power in these contested borderlands rested with the regions' pre-existing inhabitants-diverse Native peoples, French villagers, and Anglo-American settlers. These residents nonetheless turned to the new federal government to claim ownership, jurisdiction, protection, and federal money, seeking to obtain rights under federal law. Two areas of governance proved particularly central: contests over property, where plural sources of title created conflicting land claims, and struggles over the right to use violence, in which customary borderlands practice intersected with the federal government's effort to establish a monopoly on force. Over time, as federal officials improvised ad hoc, largely extrajudicial methods to arbitrate residents' claims, they slowly insinuated federal authority deeper into territorial life. This authority survived even after the former territories became Ohio and Tennessee: although new states spoke a language of equal footing and autonomy, statehood actually offered former territorial citizens the most effective way yet to make claims on the federal government. The federal government, in short, still could not always prescribe the result in the territories, but it set the terms and language of debate-authority that became the foundation for later, more familiar and bureaucratic incarnations of federal power"-- Provided by publisher. Public lands Electronic books History. United States. Land tenure Law and legislation History. United States. Land titles States History. United States. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190905699.001.0001 click here to access available to all UP Students University of the Philippines, College of Law FO UPD DLAW KF 5605 A73 2021 Electronic Resource