Outside the Law: Emergency and Executive Power

by Clement Fatovic

The origins of presidential claims to extraconstitutional powers during national crises are contentious points of debate among constitutional and legal scholars. The Constitution is silent on the matter, yet from Abraham Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus during the Civil War to George W. Bush's creation of the "enemy combatants" label, a number of presidents have invoked emergency executive power in defense of actions not specifically endorsed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801893623
• ISBN13: 9780801893629
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.1"