War Powers (eBook)

The Politics of Constitutional Authority

Mariah Zeisberg (Autor)

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2013
288 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4677-1 (ISBN)

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Mariah Zeisberg is assistant professor of political science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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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 constitutional settlement for all conditions, but instead how well they bring their distinctive governing capacities to bear on their interpretive work in context. Because the branches legitimately approach constitutional questions in different ways, interpretive conflicts between them can sometimes indicate a successful rather than deficient interpretive politics. Zeisberg argues for a set of distinctive constitutional standards for evaluating the branches and their relationship to one another, and she demonstrates how observers and officials can use those standards to evaluate the branches' constitutional politics. With cases ranging from the Mexican War and World War II to the Cold War, Cuban Missile Crisis, and Iran-Contra scandal, War Powers reinterprets central controversies of war powers scholarship and advances a new way of evaluating the constitutional behavior of officials outside of the judiciary.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.7.2013
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Accountability • Amendment • American Enterprise Institute • American Presidents • Annexation • Anti-Federalism • Anti-Imperialism • anti-war movement • authorization • Baker v. Carr • belligerent • bipartisanship • Blockade • Boland Amendment • Bombing • Boumediene v. Bush • Cambodia • Cambridge University Press • Casus belli • Coercive Diplomacy • Cold War • Collective Security • Congress • Congressional committees investigating the Iran–Contra affair • constitutional amendment • constitutional authority • Constitutional Interpretation • Constitutionalism • Constitutionality • constitutional law • constitutional politics • Constitutional theory • constitutional war powers • containment • Continuance • Contras • Criticism • cuban missile crisis • Debate • Decision-Making • declaration of war • defensive war • deference • Deliberation • Democratic Peace Theory • Disarmament • Dollar Diplomacy • Embargo • Executive (government) • Fair procedure • foreign policy • Foreign policy of the United States • Franklin Roosevelt • freedom of speech • George F. Kennan • Global politics • Good Neighbor Policy • Governance • Government • Graduate school • Harry S. Truman • Hepburn v. Griswold • hostility • Human Security • Ideology • Immigration Law • Impeachment • imperialism • Imperial Presidency • Institution • insularism • Insurgency • interbranch deliberation • International Law • International Security • interpretive politics • investigatory power • Iran–Contra affair • Iran-Contra Investigation • isolationism • Jack Balkin • James Polk • John F. Kennedy • Joint resolution • judicial deference • Judiciary • Legislation • legislative investigation • Legislator • Legislature • Legitimacy (political) • letter of marque • Liberalism • lochner era • Loss of China • Louis Michael Seidman • madman theory • McCulloch v. Maryland • Member of Congress • mexican war • Militarism • Monroe Doctrine • Munitions Investigation • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People • national Lawyers Guild • national security • Necessity • Non-Interventionism • NSC-68 • Nuclear warfare • oil embargo • original intent • partisanship • Paul Brest • Peaceful coexistence • Police action • Police power (United States constitutional law) • Political Economy • Political jurisprudence • Political Liberalism • Political Science • Politics • power politics • Precedent • Precommitment • Prerogative • presidential acts • Presidential System • President of the United States • Princeton University Press • Public Policy • Racism • ratification • Regime • relational conception • Reprisal • Republican Party (United States) • Requirement • rhetoric • Richard Nixon • Roosevelt Corollary • Sanford Levinson • Secret treaty • security dilemma • security order • Separation of Powers • settlement theory • skepticism • Slavery • Statute • Statutory Law • Subversion • Superiority (short story) • terrorism • The Administrative State • The Federalist Papers • Torture • Treaty • Two Treatises of Government • Undeclared War • United States Bill of Rights • United States Congress • United States constitution • United States Department of State • United States Senate • United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations • U.S. Constitution • Veto • vietnamization • war • war authority • war effort • warfare • War hawk • war of aggression • war power • War Powers • War Powers Resolution • Warren Rudman • Wayne Morse • Whigs (British political party) • William Borah • Woodrow Wilson • World literature • World War I • World War II • Yale University Press
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4677-3 / 1400846773
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4677-1 / 9781400846771