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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zeisberg, Mariah (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2013]
Edición:Core Textbook
Temas:
Separation of powers > United States > History.
War and emergency powers > United States > History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch.
American presidents.
Cambodia.
Cold War.
Congress.
Cuban Missile Crisis.
Franklin Roosevelt.
Iran-Contra Investigation.
James Polk.
John F. Kennedy.
Mexican War.
Munitions Investigation.
Richard Nixon.
Roosevelt Corollary.
U.S. Constitution.
World War II.
bombing.
constitutional authority.
constitutional interpretation.
constitutional politics.
constitutional theory.
constitutional war powers.
insularism.
interbranch deliberation.
interpretive politics.
investigatory power.
legislative investigation.
legislature.
partisanship.
presidential acts.
relational conception.
security order.
settlement theory.
war authority.
war power.
war powers.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1. Who Has Authority to Take the Country to War?
  • Chapter 2. Presidential Discretion and the Path to War
  • Chapter 3. "Uniting Our Voice at the Water's Edge"
  • Chapter 4. Defensive War
  • Chapter 5. Legislative Investigations as War Power
  • Chapter 6. The Politics of Constitutional Authority
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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