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Imbalance of powers : constitutional interpretation and the making of American foreign policy

Author: Gordon Silverstein
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Gordon Silverstein
ISBN: 0195104765 9780195104769 0195104773 9780195104776
OCLC Number: 33404415
Description: xi, 276 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: I. Introduction --
II. Constitutional Interpretation and Foreign Policy: The Traditional Interpretation. 1. The Traditional Interpretation in Court. 2. The Executive and the Traditional Interpretation --
III. A New Interpretation Evolves: Executive Prerogative in Foreign Policy. 3. Congress, the Executive, and the Emergence of Prerogative Power in Foreign Policy. 4. Johnson, Nixon, and the Assertion of Executive Prerogative. 5. Lending Legitimacy to the Prerogative Interpretation: Prerogative Power in Court --
IV. Why Statutes Don't Work: Congress Strikes Back, and Makes It Worse. 6. The Legislative Response: Legal Solutions to Political Problems. 7. The Legislative Response: Building Foreign Policy on the War Powers Model --
V. Political Solutions to a Political Problem: Incentives to Rebalance Power. 8. Why the Courts Won't Save Congress Overseas - Or at Home. 9. Incentives to Rebalance Power --
VI. Conclusion.
Responsibility: Gordon Silverstein.
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