05159nam 2201093Ia 450 991045269350332120200520144314.01-299-47631-71-4008-4677-310.1515/9781400846771(CKB)2550000001019863(EBL)1131684(OCoLC)841033930(SSID)ssj0000872420(PQKBManifestationID)12430895(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000872420(PQKBWorkID)10863994(PQKB)11353258(MiAaPQ)EBC1131684(StDuBDS)EDZ0001752988(OCoLC)880902747(MdBmJHUP)muse43264(DE-B1597)453915(OCoLC)979835652(DE-B1597)9781400846771(Au-PeEL)EBL1131684(CaPaEBR)ebr10689870(CaONFJC)MIL478881(EXLCZ)99255000000101986320121102d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWar powers[electronic resource] the politics of constitutional authority /Mariah ZeisbergCore TextbookPrinceton Princeton University Press20131 online resource (287 p.)Includes index.0-691-16803-2 0-691-15722-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Who Has Authority to Take the Country to War? -- Chapter 2. Presidential Discretion and the Path to War -- Chapter 3. "Uniting Our Voice at the Water's Edge" -- Chapter 4. Defensive War -- Chapter 5. Legislative Investigations as War Power -- Chapter 6. The Politics of Constitutional Authority -- Acknowledgments -- IndexArmed 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. Mariah Zeisberg shows that what matters is not that the branches enact the same constitutional settlement for all conditions, but instead how well they bring their distinctive governing capacities to bear on their interpretive work in context. Because the branches legitimately approach constitutional questions in different ways, interpretive conflicts between them can sometimes indicate a successful rather than deficient interpretive politics. Zeisberg argues for a set of distinctive constitutional standards for evaluating the branches and their relationship to one another, and she demonstrates how observers and officials can use those standards to evaluate the branches' constitutional politics. With cases ranging from the Mexican War and World War II to the Cold War, Cuban Missile Crisis, and Iran-Contra scandal, War Powers reinterprets central controversies of war powers scholarship and advances a new way of evaluating the constitutional behavior of officials outside of the judiciary.War and emergency powersUnited StatesHistorySeparation of powersUnited StatesHistoryElectronic books.American presidents.Cambodia.Cold War.Congress.Cuban Missile Crisis.Franklin Roosevelt.Iran-Contra Investigation.James Polk.John F. Kennedy.Mexican War.Munitions Investigation.Richard Nixon.Roosevelt Corollary.U.S. Constitution.World War II.bombing.constitutional authority.constitutional interpretation.constitutional politics.constitutional theory.constitutional war powers.insularism.interbranch deliberation.interpretive politics.investigatory power.legislative investigation.legislature.partisanship.presidential acts.relational conception.security order.settlement theory.war authority.war power.war powers.War and emergency powersHistory.Separation of powersHistory.352.23/50973Zeisberg Mariah Ananda1977-1045838MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452693503321War powers2472400UNINA