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27%OFFMariah Ananda Zeisberg - War Powers: The Politics of Constitutional Authority - 9780691168036 - V9780691168036
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War Powers: The Politics of Constitutional Authority

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Description for War Powers: The Politics of Constitutional Authority Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJK; JPHC; JWL; LNDK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 236 x 20. Weight in Grams: 464.
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

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691168036
SKU
V9780691168036
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About Mariah Ananda 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 ... Read more

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