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UNINA9910554281503321 |
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Driesen David M. |
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The specter of dictatorship : judicial enabling of presidential power / / David M. Driesen |
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Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2021] |
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©2021 |
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1 online resource (249 pages) |
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Stanford studies in law and politics |
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Presidents - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 AVOIDING TYRANNY AT THE FOUNDING -- 2 THE RISE OF PRESIDENTIAL POWER -- 3 DECLINING TO ADJUDICATE CLAIMS AGAINST THE PRESIDENT -- 4 IMPLIED PRESIDENTIAL AND CONGRESSIONAL POWER -- 5 THE SPECTER OF DICTATORSHIP: Poland, Hungary, and Turkey -- 6 PARALLELS TO AMERICA’S DEMOCRATIC EROSION -- 7 JUDICIAL TREATMENT OF PRESIDENTIAL POWER IN AN AGE OF DEMOCRATIC DECLINE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
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Reveals how the U.S. Supreme Court's presidentialism threatens our democracy and what to do about it. Donald Trump's presidency made many Americans wonder whether our system of checks and balances would prove robust enough to withstand an onslaught from a despotic chief executive. In The Specter of Dictatorship, David Driesen analyzes the chief executive's role in the democratic decline of Hungary, Poland, and Turkey and argues that an insufficiently constrained presidency is one of the most important systemic threats to democracy. Driesen urges the U.S. to learn from the mistakes of these failing democracies. Their experiences suggest, Driesen shows, that the Court must eschew its reliance on and expansion of the "unitary executive theory" recently endorsed by the Court and apply a less deferential approach to presidential authority, invoked to protect national security and combat emergencies, than it has in recent years. Ultimately, Driesen argues that concern about loss of democracy should play a major role in the |
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Court's jurisprudence, because loss of democracy can prove irreversible. As autocracy spreads throughout the world, maintaining our democracy has become an urgent matter. |
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UNINA9910778420103321 |
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Negotiating community and difference in medieval Europe [[electronic resource] ] : gender, power, patronage, and the authority of religion in Latin Christendom / / edited by Katherine Allen Smith and Scott Wells |
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Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2009 |
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1-282-40028-2 |
9786612400285 |
90-474-2456-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Studies in the history of Christian traditions ; ; v. 142 |
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SmithKatherine Allen |
WellsScott <1970-> |
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Religion and sociology - Europe - History - To 1500 |
Monastic and religious life - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500 |
Europe Religious life and customs |
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"The essays in this collection are offered to Penelope D. Johnson ... on the occasion of her retirement"--Pref. |
"Most of the papers ... had their inception in a series of three panels convened in Pene's honor at the 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan, in May of 2006."--Pref. |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Gender, power, and patronage : the impact of Penelope D. Johnson on medieval studies ; Penelope D. Johnson, the Boswell thesis, and Negotiating community and difference in medieval Europe / Katherine Allen Smith, Scott Wells -- Living with a saint : monastic identity, community, and the ideal of asceticism in the life of an Irish saint / Diane Peters Auslander -- A tale of two dioceses : prologues as letters in the Vitae authored by Jacques de Vitry and Thomas de Cantimpré / Christina Roukis-Stern -- "Within the walls of paradise" : space and |
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community in the Vita of Umiliana de' Cerchi (1219-1246) / Anne M. Schuchman -- Architectural mimesis and historical memory at the Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel / Katherine Allen Smith -- Holy women and the needle arts : piety, devotion, and stitching the sacred, ca. 500-1150 / Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg -- The politics of gender and ethnicity in East Francia : the case of Gandersheim, ca. 850-950 / Scott Wells -- Noble women's power as reflected in the foundations of Cistercian houses for nuns in thirteenth-century Northern France : Port-Royal, les Clairets, Moncey Lieu and Eau-lez-Chartres / Constance Hoffman Berman -- "Inseparable companions" : Mary Magdalene, Abelard, and Heloise / Susan Valentine -- Book, body, and the construction of the self in the Taymouth hours / Kathryn A. Smith -- Abbott Erluin's blindness : the monastic implications of violent loss of sight / Susan Wade -- Blanche of Artois and Burgundy, Château-Gaillard, and the Baron de Joursanvault / Elizabeth A.R. Brown -- The matter of others : menstrual blood and uncontrolled semen in thirteenth-century kabbalists' polemic against Christians, "bad" Jews, and Muslims / Alexandra Cuffel. |
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This collection builds on the foundational work of Penelope D. Johnson, John Boswell's most influential student outside queer studies, on integration and segregation in medieval Christianity. It documents the multiple strategies by which medieval people constructed identities and, in the process, wove the boundaries of inclusion and exclusion among various individuals and groups. The collection adopts an interdisciplinary approach, encompassing historical, art historical, and literary perpsectives to explore the definition of personal and communal spaces within medieval texts, the complex negotiation of the relationship between devotee and saint in both the early and the later Middle Ages, the forming of partnerships (symbolic, economic, devotional, et cetera) between men and women across medieval Europe's considerable gender divide, and the ostracism of individuals and groups through various means including imprisonment, violence, and their identification with pollution. Contributors include: Diane Peters Auslander, Constance Hoffman Berman, Elizabeth A.R. Brown, Alexandra Cuffel, Anne M. Schuchman, Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg, Katherine Allen Smith, Kathryn A. Smith, Christina Roukis-Stern, Susan Valentine, Susan Wade, and Scott Wells. |
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