Chadha: The Story of an Epic Constitutional Struggle

by Barbara Hinkson Craig

Book Overview

When Jagdish Chadha, a Kenyan of Indian extraction, decided in 1974 to fight his impending deportation, he unwittingly stumbled into one of the most far-reaching separation-of-powers battles of this century. In 1983, when the United States Supreme Court ruled in his favor, it effectively threw out hundreds of laws--more laws than it had overturned in its entire previous history--including acts that dealt with war powers, arms sales, and a host of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195050312
• ISBN13: 9780195050318
• Release Date: November 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Excelent

Craig does a great job of of filling in the background on a very important case. Too bad it is out of print.