Judging executive power [[electronic resource] ] : sixteen Supreme Court cases that have shaped the American presidency / / edited by Richard J. Ellis

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454645103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lanham [Md.], : Rowman & Littefield, c2009
• ISBN: 1-282-49668-9; 9786612496684; 0-7425-6514-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (244 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): EllisRichard (Richard J.)
• Disciplina: 342.73/06
• Soggetti: Executive power - United States; Constitutional law - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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).
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 Supreme Court cases that have shaped the power of the American presidency. The cases selected include the removal ; power, executive privilege, executive immunity, and the line-item veto, with particularly emphasis on a president's wartime powers from the Civil War to the War on Terror. Through introductions and postscripts that accompany each case, landmark judicial opinions are placed in their political and historical contexts, enabling students to understand the political forces that frame and the political consequences that follow from legal arguments and judgments.