23, as excerpted in “Continental Policy of the United States: The Acquisition of Cuba,”United States Magazine and Democratic Review,April 1859, 23.
5. Jefferson to Madison, April 27, 1809, in ibid.
6. 对来自英格兰和北欧的移居者来说，在很大程度上是这种情况；而来自西班牙的人则把它主要看作有待开发的领土，居住在那里的土着人将转而皈依基督教。
7. John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian 插rity” (1630). See Brendan Simms, Europe, 36.
8. Publius [Alexander Hamilton], The Federalist 1, in Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, The Federalist Papers (New York: Mentor, 1961), 1–2. 这里的“帝国”是指拥有完全主权的独立实体。