Judging Executive Power
Sixteen Supreme Court Cases That Have Shaped the American Presidency
1st Edition
Published on 16. March 2009
244 pages
978-0-7425-6514-2 (ISBN)
Description
George W. Bush's presidency has helped accelerate a renewed interest in the legal or formal bases of presidential power. It is now abundantly clear that presidential power is more than the sum of bargaining, character, and rhetoric. Presidential power also inheres in the Constitution or at least assertions of constitutional powers. Judging Executive Power helps to bring the Constitution and the courts back into the study of the American presidency by introducing students to sixteen important Supreme Court cases that have shaped the power of the American presidency. The cases selected include the removal power, executive privilege, executive immunity, and the line-item veto, with particularly emphasis on a president's wartime powers from the Civil War to the War on Terror. Through introductions and postscripts that accompany each case, landmark judicial opinions are placed in their political and historical contexts, enabling students to understand the political forces that frame and the political consequences that follow from legal arguments and judgments.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13
978-0-7425-6514-2 (9780742565142)
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Richard J. Ellis
Judging Executive Power
Sixteen Supreme Court Cases that Have Shaped the American Presidency
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03/2009
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Richard J. Ellis
Judging Executive Power
Sixteen Supreme Court Cases that Have Shaped the American Presidency
Book
03/2009
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
€156.00
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I. DOMESTIC POWERS
- Chapter 01. Myers v. United States (1926)
- Chapter 02. Humphrey's Executor v.United States (1935)
- Chapter 03. United States v. Nixon (1974)
- Chapter 04. Nixon v. Fitzgerald (1982)
- Chapter 05. Clinton v. Jones (1997)
- Chapter 06. Immigration and NaturalizationService v. Chadha (1983)
- Chapter 07. Clinton v. City of New York(1998)
- Part II. WAR POWERSAND DIPLOMACY
- Chapter 08. United States v. Curtiss-WrightExport Corp. (1936)
- Chapter 09. The Prize Cases (1863)
- Chapter 10. Ex parte Milligan (1866)
- Chapter 11. Ex parte Quirin (1942)
- Chapter 12. Korematsu v. United States(1944)
- Chapter 13. Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v.Sawyer (1952)
- Chapter 14. United States v. Reynolds (1953)
- Chapter 15. Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006)
- Chapter 16. Boumediene v. Bush (2008)
- Glossary of Legal Terms
- List of Cases
- Suggested Further Reading
- Index
- About the Author
