Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Ann-Marie Scheidt
  • The origins of the war power provision of the Constitution / William Conrad Gibbons
  • Not for the first time : antecedents and origins of the War Powers Resolution, 1945-1970 / Duane Tananbaum
  • The debate over the War Powers Resolution / Jacob K. Javits
  • The impact of the War Powers Resolution / John H. Sullivan
  • With the advice and consent of the Senate : the treaty-making process before the Cold War years / Wayne S. Cole
  • The Senate, detente, and SALT I / Robert D. Schulzinger
  • Constraining SALT II : the role of the Senate / Stanley J. Higinbotham
  • What the Founding Fathers intended : congressional-executive relations in the early American republic / David M. Pletcher
  • Military assistance and American foreign policy : the role of Congress / Chester J. Pach, Jr.
  • Oversight or afterview? : Congress, the CIA, and covert actions since 1947 / Thomas G. Patterson
  • The executive, Congress, and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975 / George C. Herring.