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James P. PfiffnerPublication Details
BookBrookings Institution Press2008Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) JK516 .P49 2008 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Power Play analyzes the Bush presidency’s efforts to expand executive power in these four domains and puts them into constitutional and historical perspective. Power Play lays bare the extent of this second campaign and explains why it will continue to threaten the future of republican government if the other two branches do not assert their own constitutional prerogatives. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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- "Analyzes the Bush presidency’s efforts to expand executive power, putting them into constitutional and historical perspective. Explores the evolution of Anglo- American thinking about executive power and individual rights. Documents how the current administration has undermined the separation of powers and shows how these practices have imperiled the rule of law"–Provided by publisher
Contents
- A government of laws or men?
- The nature of executive power
- Creating individual rights and an independent legislature
- The American Constitution
- The power to imprison : habeas corpus
- The power to torture
- The power to surveil
- The power to ignore the law : signing statements
- Conclusion: Constitutionalism and the rule of law
ISBN
- 9780815770442
- 0815770448
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