| Description |
1 online resource (287 pages) |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; CHAPTER 1: Who Has Authority to Take the Country to War?; CHAPTER 2: Presidential Discretion and the Path to War: The Mexican War and World War II; CHAPTER 3: "Uniting Our Voice at the Water's Edge": Legislative Authority in the Cold War and Roosevelt Corollary; CHAPTER 4: Defensive War: The Cuban Missile Crisis and Cambodian Incursion; CHAPTER 5: Legislative Investigations as War Power: The Senate Munitions Investigation and Iran-Contra; CHAPTER 6: The Politics of Constitutional Authority; Acknowledgments; Index |
| Summary |
Armed interventions in Libya, Haiti, Iraq, Vietnam, and Korea challenged the US president and Congress with a core question of constitutional interpretation: does the president, or Congress, have constitutional authority to take the country to war? War Powers argues that the Constitution doesn't offer a single legal answer to that question. But its structure and values indicate a vision of a well-functioning constitutional politics, one that enables the branches of government themselves to generate good answers to this question for the circumstances of their own times |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
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War and emergency powers -- United States -- History
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Separation of powers -- United States -- History
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Leadership.
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LAW -- Military.
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Separation of powers
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War and emergency powers
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United States
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Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400846771 |
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1400846773 |
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