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Emergency Presidential Power : From the Drafting of the Constitution to the War on Terror /
"Can a U.S. president decide to hold suspected terrorists indefinitely without charges or secretly monitor telephone conversations and e-mails without a warrant in the interest of national security? Was the George W. Bush administration justified in authorizing waterboarding? Was President Obam...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Madison :
The University of Wisconsin Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Constitution and emergency presidential power
- Presidential power in the young republic: Washington's Neutrality proclamation, a "half-war" with France, and the Alien and Sedition Acts
- Lincoln and the wartime constitution
- Setting limits on wartime power: the Ex parte Milligan decision
- Expanded presidential power during World War II: Nazi saboteurs and military commissions
- The internment of Japanese Americans during World War II
- The Youngstown steel seizure case: the Court sets limits on presidential power
- Nixon, Watergate, and a bid for unbridled presidential power
- Emergency presidential power at its zenith: the Bush administration and the unitary executive
- Detaining and trying suspected terrorists
- Torture in the War on Terror
- Warrantless wiretapping: presidential power to set aside acts of Congress?
- Detention and military commissions under the Obama administration
- The state secrets privilege: emergency presidential power by another name?
- The Obama administration and military action in Libya.