Power play the Bush presidency and the Constitution /
"Analyzes the Bush presidency's efforts to expand executive power, putting them into constitutional and historical perspective. Explores the evolution of Anglo-American thinking about executive power and individual rights. Documents how the current administration has undermined the separation of pow...
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| Idioma: | inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
Brookings Institution Press,
c2008.
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| 300 | |a xiv, 299 p. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a A government of laws or men? -- The nature of executive power -- Creating individual rights and an independent legislature -- The American Constitution -- The power to imprison : habeas corpus -- The power to torture -- The power to surveil -- The power to ignore the law : signing statements -- Conclusion: Constitutionalism and the rule of law. | |
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