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War Powers : the Politics of Constitutional Authority / Mariah Zeisberg.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (287 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781400846771
  • 1400846773
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: War Powers : The Politics of Constitutional Authority.DDC classification:
  • 342.73062
LOC classification:
  • JK339 .W45 2013
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Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; CHAPTER 1: Who Has Authority to Take the Country to War?; CHAPTER 2: Presidential Discretion and the Path to War: The Mexican War and World War II; CHAPTER 3: "Uniting Our Voice at the Water's Edge": Legislative Authority in the Cold War and Roosevelt Corollary; CHAPTER 4: Defensive War: The Cuban Missile Crisis and Cambodian Incursion; CHAPTER 5: Legislative Investigations as War Power: The Senate Munitions Investigation and Iran-Contra; CHAPTER 6: The Politics of Constitutional Authority; Acknowledgments; Index.
Summary: 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.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; CHAPTER 1: Who Has Authority to Take the Country to War?; CHAPTER 2: Presidential Discretion and the Path to War: The Mexican War and World War II; CHAPTER 3: "Uniting Our Voice at the Water's Edge": Legislative Authority in the Cold War and Roosevelt Corollary; CHAPTER 4: Defensive War: The Cuban Missile Crisis and Cambodian Incursion; CHAPTER 5: Legislative Investigations as War Power: The Senate Munitions Investigation and Iran-Contra; CHAPTER 6: The Politics of Constitutional Authority; Acknowledgments; Index.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In English.

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