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Extra-legal power and legitimacy : perspectives on prerogative /

This title examines the costs and benefits associated with different ways that governments have wielded extra-legal powers in times of emergency. It surveys distinct models of emergency governments and draw diverse and conflicting approaches by joining influential thinkers into conversation with one...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fatovic, Clement, 1973- (Editor ), Kleinerman, Benjamin A. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : extra-legal measures and the problem of legitimacy / Clement Fatovic and Benjamin A. Kleinerman
  • Prerogative power in Rome / Nomi Claire Lazar
  • Violating divine law : emergency measures in Jewish law / Oren Gross
  • Lockean prerogative : productive tensions / Leonard C. Feldman
  • The limits of constitutional government : Alexander Hamilton on extraordinary power and executive discretion / George Thomas
  • The Jeffersonian executive : more energetic, more responsible, and less stable / Jeremy D. Bailey
  • Lincoln and executive power during the Civil War : an examination of one case: constitutional power or, in effect, an exercise of prerogative power? / Michael Kent Curtis
  • Filling the void : democratic deliberation and the legitimization of extra-legal action / Clement Fatovic
  • Emergency powers and terrorism-related regulation circa 2012 : perspectives on prerogative power in the United States / Mark Tushnet
  • The irrelevance of prerogative power, and the evils of secret legal interpretation / Jack Goldsmith.