Long Wars and the Constitution

Name: Long Wars and the Constitution
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ISBN: 9780674058286

ISBN-10: 0674058283

ISBN-13: 9780674058286

Edition: 2013

Authors: Stephen M. Griffin

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In a wide-ranging constitutional history of presidential war decisions from 1945 to the present, Stephen M. Griffin rethinks the long-running debate over the “imperial presidency” and concludes that the eighteenth-century Constitution is inadequate to the challenges of a post-9/11 world.The Constitution requires the consent of Congress before the United States can go to war. Truman’s decision to fight in Korea without gaining that consent was unconstitutional, says Griffin, but the acquiescence of Congress and the American people created a precedent for presidents to claim autonomy in this arena ever since. The unthinking extension of presidential leadership in foreign affairs to a point…

Book details

List price: $41.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 6/10/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 376
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.518
Language: English

Stephen M. Griffin is Rutledge C. Clement, Jr., Professor in Constitutional Law at Tulane Law School.



List of Acronyms


Introduction



War Powers and Constitutional Change



Truman and the Post-1945 Constitutional Order



War and the National Security State



Vietnam and Watergate: The Post-1945 Constitutional Order in Crisis



The Constitutional Order in the Post-Vietnam Era



The 9/11 Wars and the Presidency



A New Constitutional Order?


Appendix: Executive Branch War Powers Opinions since 1950


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index