Emergency Presidential Power: From the Drafting of the Constitution to the War on Terror

by Chris Edelson

Book Overview

Can a U.S. president decide to hold suspected terrorists indefinitely without charges or secretly monitor telephone conversations and e-mails without a warrant in the interest of national security? Was the George W. Bush administration justified in authorizing waterboarding? Was President Obama justified in ordering the killing, without trial or hearing, of a U.S. citizen suspected of terrorist activity? Defining the scope and limits of emergency...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299295303
• ISBN13: 9780299295301
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.3"