In the Name of War : : Judicial Review and the War Powers since 1918 / / Christopher N. May.
For more than a century, in settings where the political branches of government were unable or unwilling to exercise self-restraint, the Supreme Court was disposed to treat federal war powers legislation as exempt from judicial review, an attitude that permitted numerous abuses from Prohibition to p...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013] ©1989 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (370 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- 1. The War Powers at the Armistice: Where the Will Meets the Way
- 2. Experiments in Socialism: Federal Control of the Rails and the Wires
- 3. Wartime Prohibition: “A Freakish Legislative Child”
- 4. The High Cost of Living: Recipe for Revolution
- 5. The War on Radicalism: Prosecuting the American Heretic
- 6. Censorship and the “Cowed Mind”: Perpetuating the Aura of Repression
- 7. Judicial Review: Its Hour Come Round at Last
- 8. The Tug-of-War over Rent Control: A Futile Exercise in Defiance
- 9. Preserving the Legacy: The Timing of Judicial Intervention
- Abbreviations. Notes. Index
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index