"Colony,"--or "free state"? "Dependence,"--or "just connection"? "Empire,"--or "union"?

An essay based on the political philosophy of the American Revolution, as summerized in the Declaration of Independence, towards the ascertainment of the nature of the political relationship between the American union and its annexed insular regions and The question of terminology; an address containing the substance of the foregoing essay, with some additions, delivered before the section for the study of the government of dependencies, of the American Political Science Association, at the meeting held at Providence, December 29, 1906.