War powers how the imperial presidency hijacked the Constitution
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Metropolitan Books
2005
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991010216829708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- In the beginning: "the power of war and peace"
- "Not only war but public war": congressional authority in the new nation
- "A war unjust and unnecessary": seizing a continental empire
- "The great exigencies of government": the Civil War
- "Remember the Maine": the birth of imperial America
- "We must have no criticism now": the war to end all wars
- "The sole organ of the nation": the birth of the imperial presidency
- "The very bring of constitutional power": Japanese Americans and German saboteurs
- "A world-wide American empire": the imperial presidency in the Cold War
- "What every schoolboy knows": Vietnam and congressional abdication
- "We were going to war": from the Gulf War to Afghanistan
- "We will not hesitate to act alone": the American colossus in the age of preemptive war
- "The constitution is just a piece of paper": empire vs. democracy
