In the Name of War: Judicial Review and the War Powers Since 1918

by 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 press censorship. Though the First World War officially ended in 1918, the Senate's rejection of the Versailles Treaty kept the United States in a legal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067444549X
• ISBN13: 9780674445499
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.5"