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Title Judging executive power : sixteen Supreme Court cases that have shaped the American presidency / edited by Richard J. Ellis
Published Lanham [Md.] : Rowman & Littefield, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 233 pages)
Contents Myers v. United States (1926) -- Humphrey's executor v. United States (1935) -- United States v. Nixon (1974) -- Nixon v. Fitzgerald (1982) -- Clinton v. Jones (1997) -- Immigration and Naturalization Services v. Chadha (1983) -- Clinton v. City of New York (1998) -- United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp (1936) -- The Prize cases (1863) -- Ex parte Milligan (1866) -- Ex parte Quirin (1942) -- Korematsu v. United States (1944) -- Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (1952) -- United States v. Reynolds (1953) -- Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006) -- Boumediene v. Bush (2008)
Summary George W. Bush's presidency has helped accelerate a renewed interest in the legal or formal bases of presidential power. It is now abundantly clear that presidential power is more than the sum of bargaining, character, and rhetoric. Presidential power also inheres in the Constitution or at least assertions of constitutional powers. Judging Executive Power helps to bring the Constitution and the courts back into the study of the American presidency by introducing students to sixteen important SupremeCourt cases that have shaped the power of the American presidency. The cases selected include th
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject United States. Supreme Court.
SUBJECT United States. Supreme Court fast
Subject Executive power -- United States -- Cases
Constitutional law -- United States -- Cases.
LAW -- Constitutional.
LAW -- Public.
Constitutional law
Executive power
United States
Genre/Form Trials, litigation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Ellis, Richard (Richard J.)
ISBN 9780742565142
0742565149
0742565122
9780742565128
1282496689
9781282496682
9786612496684
6612496681