Power and Constraint The Accountable Presidency After 9/11

Name: Power and Constraint The Accountable Presidency After 9/11
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ISBN: 9780393081336

ISBN-10: 0393081338

ISBN-13: 9780393081336

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jack Goldsmith

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Conventional wisdom holds that 9/11 sounded the death knell for presidential accountability. In fact, the opposite is true. The novel powers that our post-9/11 commanders in chief assumedâendless detentions, military commissions, state secrets, broad surveillance, and moreâare the culmination of a two-century expansion of presidential authority. But these new powers have been met with thousands of barely visible legal and political constraintsâenforced by congressional committees, government lawyers, courts, and the mediaâthat have transformed our unprecedentedly powerful presidency into one that is also unprecedentedly accountable.These constraints are the key to understanding why…

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List price: $28.50
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/13/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.94" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 1.562
Language: English