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The judicial power of the purse : how courts fund national defense in times of crisis /
Congress and the president are not the only branches that deal with fiscal issues in times of war. In this innovative book, Nancy Staudt focuses on the role of federal courts in fiscal matters during warfare and high-cost national defense emergencies. There is, she argues, a judicial power of the pu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago, IL :
University of Chicago Press,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Chicago series on international and domestic institutions.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Congress and the president are not the only branches that deal with fiscal issues in times of war. In this innovative book, Nancy Staudt focuses on the role of federal courts in fiscal matters during warfare and high-cost national defense emergencies. There is, she argues, a judicial power of the purse that becomes evident upon examining the budgetary effects of judicial decision making. The book provides substantial evidence that judges are willing--maybe even eager--to redirect private monies into government hands when the country is in peril, but when the judges receive convincing cues that o. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 199 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-190) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780226771151 0226771156 9786613362803 6613362808 |