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Bush, the Detainees, and the Constitution: The Battle over Presidential Power in the War on Terror
Howard Ball
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Description for Bush, the Detainees, and the Constitution: The Battle over Presidential Power in the War on Terror
Hardcover. The detainees of Guantanamo, have come to symbolize a host of controversial policies claimed by President George W Bush in the so-called war on terror. This book takes a look at White House's defense of its detainee program, and the court actions used to challenge that expansion of unchecked presidential power. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPA; JPHL; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 558.
The infamous detainees of Guantanamo, garbed in their bright orange prison jumpsuits, have come to symbolize a host of controversial policies and powers claimed by President George W. Bush in the so-called war on terror. Designated as ""enemy combatants,"" a vaguely defined and previously unrecognized category in the international laws of war, they have been at the center of a legal firestorm challenging the Bush administration's conduct of the war. Howard Ball, one of our nation's leading constitutional authorities, takes a close look at the White House's defense of its detainee program (what some have called an ""American gulag""), the ... Read more
The infamous detainees of Guantanamo, garbed in their bright orange prison jumpsuits, have come to symbolize a host of controversial policies and powers claimed by President George W. Bush in the so-called war on terror. Designated as ""enemy combatants,"" a vaguely defined and previously unrecognized category in the international laws of war, they have been at the center of a legal firestorm challenging the Bush administration's conduct of the war. Howard Ball, one of our nation's leading constitutional authorities, takes a close look at the White House's defense of its detainee program (what some have called an ""American gulag""), the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700615292
SKU
V9780700615292
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About Howard Ball
Howard Ball, professor of law at Vermont Law School and University Scholar and professor emeritus of political science at the University of Vermont, is the author of two dozen other books, including most recently Justice in Mississippi: The Murder Trial of Edgar Ray Killen and Murder in Mississippi.
Reviews for Bush, the Detainees, and the Constitution: The Battle over Presidential Power in the War on Terror
President Bush's treatment of enemy combatants in the 'war on terror' is the most important constitutional story of our time, and Howard Ball tells it with a deft sense for detail, an impressive field of vision, and a sharply critical eye. David Cole, author of Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism ""Ball's detailed and ... Read more