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Outside the Law
Clement Fatovic
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Description for Outside the Law
Scholars of liberalism, the American founding, and the American presidency will find Fatovic's reasoned arguments against the conventional wisdom enlightening. Series: The Johns Hopkins Series in Constitutional Thought. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHC; JPHL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 27. Weight in Grams: 644.
The origins of presidential claims to extraconstitutional powers during national crises are contentious points of debate among constitutional and legal scholars. The Constitution is silent on the matter, yet from Abraham Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus during the Civil War to George W. Bush's creation of the "enemy combatants" label, a number of presidents have invoked emergency executive power in defense of actions not specifically endorsed in the Constitution or granted by Congress. Taking up the debate, Clement Fatovic digs into the intellectual history of the nation's founding to argue that the originators of liberal constitutional theory explicitly endorsed ... Read more
The origins of presidential claims to extraconstitutional powers during national crises are contentious points of debate among constitutional and legal scholars. The Constitution is silent on the matter, yet from Abraham Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus during the Civil War to George W. Bush's creation of the "enemy combatants" label, a number of presidents have invoked emergency executive power in defense of actions not specifically endorsed in the Constitution or granted by Congress. Taking up the debate, Clement Fatovic digs into the intellectual history of the nation's founding to argue that the originators of liberal constitutional theory explicitly endorsed ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Series
The Johns Hopkins Series in Constitutional Thought
Number of Pages
368
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801893629
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V9780801893629
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About Clement Fatovic
Clement Fatovic is an assistant professor of political theory at Florida International University.
Reviews for Outside the Law
Provides a scholarly review of the discussions about emergency power by those who debated and drafted the United States Constitution and then advocated for and against its ratification. He also gives a thorough analysis of the writings on emergency power by four key political theorists... whose work influenced our Founding Fathers' view... Mr. Fatovic demonstrates quite convincingly that the importance ... Read more