Power and Constraint: The Accountable Presidency After 9/11

by Jack L. Goldsmith

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Conventional wisdom holds that 9/11 sounded the death knell for presidential accountability. In fact, the opposite is true. The novel powers that our post-9/11 commanders in chief assumed--endless detentions, military commissions, state secrets, broad surveillance, and more--are the culmination of a two-century expansion of presidential authority. But these new powers have been met with thousands of barely visible legal and political constraints--enforced...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0393081338

ISBN13:9780393081336

Release Date:March 2012

Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company

Length:336 Pages

Weight:1.40 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 6.4" x 9.4"

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Executive Branch Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences

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