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 separat...

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主要作者: Pfiffner, James P.
企業作者: ebrary, Inc
格式: 電子 電子書
語言:英语
出版: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2008.
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書本目錄:
  • 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.