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War powers [[electronic resource] ] : the politics of constitutional authority / / Mariah Zeisberg



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Autore: Zeisberg Mariah Ananda <1977-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: War powers [[electronic resource] ] : the politics of constitutional authority / / Mariah Zeisberg Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2013
Edizione: Core Textbook
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (287 p.)
Disciplina: 352.23/50973
Soggetto topico: War and emergency powers - United States - History
Separation of powers - United States - History
Soggetto non controllato: 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
Note generali: Includes index.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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. 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.
Titolo autorizzato: War powers  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-299-47631-7
1-4008-4677-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910779558503321
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