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War Powers: The Politics of Constitutional Authority
Mariah Zeisberg
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Description for War Powers: The Politics of Constitutional Authority
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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. Mariah Zeisberg shows that what matters is not that the branches enact the same ... Read more
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. Mariah Zeisberg shows that what matters is not that the branches enact the same ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691157221
SKU
V9780691157221
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About Mariah Zeisberg
Mariah Zeisberg is assistant professor of political science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Reviews for War Powers: The Politics of Constitutional Authority
Winner of the 2014 Richard E. Neustadt Award, Presidents and Executive Politics Section of the American Political Science Association "Zeisberg has written a sophisticated, painstakingly researched analysis focusing on the age-old question of the proper allocation of war powers between Congress and the president."
Choice "War Powers is an important entry into a vital substantive area where the concerns of scholars ... Read more
Choice "War Powers is an important entry into a vital substantive area where the concerns of scholars ... Read more