Long Wars and the Constitution / / Stephen M. Griffin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2013
• VerfasserIn: Griffin, Stephen M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (374 p.) :; 1 table

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. T...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Acronyms
• Introduction
• 1. War Powers and Constitutional Change
• 2. Truman and the Post-1945 Constitutional Order
• 3. War and the National Security State
• 4. Vietnam and Watergate
• 5. The Constitutional Order in the Post-Vietnam Era
• 6. The 9/11 Wars and the Presidency
• 7. A New Constitutional Order?
• Appendix: Executive Branch War Powers Opinions since 1950
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Index