War Powers : the Politics of Constitutional Authority /
Armed interventions in Libya, Haiti, Iraq, Vietnam, and Korea challenged the US president and Congress with a core question of constitutional interpretation: does the president, or Congress, have constitutional authority to take the country to war? War Powers argues that the Constitution doesn'...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Princeton :
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Summary: | Armed interventions in Libya, Haiti, Iraq, Vietnam, and Korea challenged the US president and Congress with a core question of constitutional interpretation: does the president, or Congress, have constitutional authority to take the country to war? War Powers argues that the Constitution doesn't offer a single legal answer to that question. But its structure and values indicate a vision of a well-functioning constitutional politics, one that enables the branches of government themselves to generate good answers to this question for the circumstances of their own times. |
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Item Description: | Project MUSE Universal EBA Ebooks Books at JSTOR Evidence Based Acquisitions EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (287 pages) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781400846771 1400846773 |