Nurturing the Imperial Presidency A How-To Manual in Eight Essays.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hallett, Brien
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : BRILL, 2020.
Colección:Theory Workshop Ser.
Temas:
Executive power.
Pouvoir exécutif.
Executive power
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Half Title
  • Series Information
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Figures
  • Chapter 1 The Moral and Procedural Structure of Declarations of War: An Introduction
  • 1 A Brief Overview of the Theory of Speech Acts
  • 2 Charles v of France, the Wise, and the Congress of the United States
  • 3 Perceptual Issues: Legislative Capacities and Incapacities
  • 4 Definitional Issues: a Lexical vs. a Performative Definition
  • 4.1 War as a Performative Speech Act
  • 5 The Four and a Half Lexical Declarations of War in American History
  • 5.1 Absolute vs. Conditional Declarations of War
  • 5.2 Reasoned vs. Unreasoned Declarations of War
  • 5.3 The Organizational Capacity and Incapacity for Declaring War
  • Chapter 2 Executive War Making from George H. W. Bush to Gilgamesh: Invariant State Practice
  • 1 An Elected Constitutional Monarch
  • 2 An Invariant State Practice
  • 3 Explaining the Rise of Elected Constitutional Monarchies: the "Power of the Purse"
  • 4 From Majesty to Sovereignty
  • 5 Primus Inter Pars
  • 6 Parsing Sovereignty
  • 7 Conclusion: Imagining an Alternative after Five Thousand Years
  • Chapter 3 The Congressional Incapacity to Declare War: Legislative Sins of Omission vs. Executive Sins of Commission
  • 1 Two Examples of War Making Procedures in Kingless Assemblies
  • 1.1 The Second Continental Congress
  • 1.2 The Security Council
  • 2 War and Non-War: Two Examples of Congressional Incapacity
  • 2.1 Non-Authorization by the 112th Congress
  • 2.2 Authorization by the 107th Congress
  • 3 James Madison and the Power to Declare War
  • 3.1 The War of 1812: Sins of Commission and Sins of Omission
  • 4 Conclusion
  • Chapter 4 Defining War and the Declaring of War: Performative Speech Acts and Ontological Guillotines
  • 1 Part 1: Declarations as Performative Speech Acts
  • 1.1 Defining the Indefinable
  • 1.1.1 Defining "Armed Conflict"?
  • 1.2 Codependency: the Speech Act Character of War
  • 1.2.1 Three Thought Experiments
  • 1.2.2 Rule of Law and the Outlawing of War
  • 1.2.3 Erasing the Codependent Relationship
  • 1.2.4 An Imperfect "Perfect"
  • 2 Part 2: Declarations as Ontological Guillotines: Transforming the Subjective into the Objective
  • 2.1 Functional Equivalent Ways to Declare War
  • 2.1.1 Positively Missing the Point
  • Chapter 5 The Declaring of War as a Conflict Resolution Strategy
  • 1 The Shortcomings of Hague Convention iii
  • 2 Unconditional Cynicism and Bad Faith
  • 3 Parliamentary vs. Executive Decision-Making: the Decision Is the Declaration vs. the Decision Is Not the Declaration
  • 4 The Jus Fetiale: Procedural Justice Sustains Substantive Justice
  • Chapter 6 The United Nation's Security Council: An "Original Understanding" vs. "Original Intentions"
  • 1 Original Irrelevance: Perceiving a Separation of Powers
  • 1.1 John Yoo's "Original Understanding"

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